acupressure

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun acupressure has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

acupressuren. [L. acus needle + premere, pressum, to press.].
     A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.  Simpson.  [1913 Webster]

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