ACUPUNCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acupuncture mean? 

• ACUPUNCTURE (noun)
  The noun ACUPUNCTURE has 1 sense:

1. treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin

  Familiarity information: ACUPUNCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACUPUNCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

acupuncture; stylostixis

Hypernyms ("acupuncture" is a kind of...):

intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))

Domain region:

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

 Context examples 

Complementary medicine includes acupuncture, dietary supplements, massage therapy, hypnosis, and meditation.

(Complementary medicine, NCI Dictionary)

A type of acupuncture based on a form of Oriental medicine in which treatment is based on a person’s constitution.

(Constitutional acupuncture, NCI Dictionary)

An example is using acupuncture to help with side effects of cancer treatment.

(Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

Complementary and alternative medicine may include dietary supplements, megadose vitamins, herbal preparations, special teas, acupuncture, massage therapy, magnet therapy, spiritual healing, and meditation.

(Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCI Dictionary)

Some methods, such as acupuncture, might help with nausea, pain and other side effects of cancer treatment.

(Cancer Alternative Therapies, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

They include medicines, acupuncture, electrical stimulation and surgery.

(Chronic Pain, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Tingling, numbness, heaviness, and other feelings that occur after an acupuncture needle has been properly placed in the body.

(De qi sensation, NCI Dictionary)

Conservative procedures such as reduction of a luxated joint, including physiotherapy such as chiropractic treatment, massage, balneotherapy, acupuncture, shiatsu.

(Defined Procedure, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

It also uses herbal products, nutrition, acupuncture, and aromatherapy as forms of treatment.

(Naturopathy, NCI Dictionary)

In acupuncture, the insertion of a thin needle into a specific place on the body to unlock qi (vital energy).

(Needling, NCI Dictionary)