acupressure

Blend of acupuncture +‎ pressure. By surface analysis, acu- +‎ pressure.

acupressure (countable and uncountable, plural acupressures)

1. (uncountable) An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
2. (countable) An act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.
   • 2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher‎:

     The warm needles of water acted like tiny acupressures on his face.

3. (dated) 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.

• acupuncture
• circumclusion
• retroclusion
• torsoclusion

• “acupressure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.