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Webster 1913 Edition
Acupressure
Acˊu-pres′sure
,Noun.
[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.