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

The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

To treat with acupuncture.

The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

To treat with acupuncture.

The occupational discipline of the traditional Chinese methods of ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY for treating disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians.

Puncture made with long fine needles for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes; stylostixis.

Bleeding due to pricking the body with needles.

An operation for relieving pain by puncturing the flesh with needles.

In surg., the pricking a diseased part with a needle.

A surgical operation, ranch in use amongst the Chinese and Japanese, which consists in puncturing parts with a very fine needle. It has been employed, of late years, in obstinate rheumatic affections, &c., and apparently with success. Acupuncture is likewise a mode of infanticide in some countries; the needle being forced into the brain through the fontanelles, or into the spinal marrow, &c.

Therapeutic insertion of needles.

The kingking, zinking, or xinkien of the Chinese. A method of treating diseases by plunging one or more needles deep into the body. It is used now only occasionally, mostly for neuralgia, or to give exit to serum in edema, or in the form of electropuncture, for the purpose of treating the parts with galvanic electricity. [Lat.]

n. [Latin] The introduction of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.