acupressure
指压,指压疗法,穴位按摩,指压法
Definitions
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- : a type of massage in which finger pressure on the specific bodily sites described in acupuncture therapy is used to promote healing, alleviate fatigue, etc.
- : Medicine/Medical. a procedure for stopping blood flow from an injured blood vessel.
Examples
Another method that was designed to fight regular motion sickness but is also used by gamers is wearing acupressure wristbands.
Elastic bracelets—with brads to place just so in an acupressure spot on the inner wrist purported to reduce nausea—are popular.
Though the inventor of acupressure, his name will forever be associated with the introduction of chloroform.
Acupressure, checking hemorrhage in arteries during an operation by compressing their orifices with a needle.
His friends endeavoured to rank acupressure with chloroform as one of the blessings to humanity made manifest by him.
In this he was mistaken for, on the contrary, acupressure was beginning to be forgotten long before twenty-five years had elapsed.
The nature of reparatory inflammation in arteries after ligatures, acupressure, and torsion.