Acupressure

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acupressure \Ac`u*pres"sure\, n. [L. acus needle + premere,
     pressum, to press.] (Surg.)
     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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acupressure
       n : treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers
           to specific pressure points on the body [syn: {G-Jo}, {shiatsu}]