Acupuncture
(v. t.)
To treat with acupuncture.
  
(n.)
The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
  
(n.)
Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
  

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Noun
1. treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin
(synonym) stylostixis
(hypernym) treatment
(classification) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC

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acupuncture
\ac`u*punc"ture\ (&?;), n. [l. acus needle + punctura a pricking, fr. pungere to prick: cf. f. acuponcture.] pricking with a needle; a needle prick. specifically (med.): the insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
acupuncture
\ac`u*punc"ture\ (&?;), v. t. to treat with acupuncture.

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acupuncture
[AK-yoo-PUNK-cher]
The technique of inserting thin needles through the skin at specific points on the body to control pain and other symptoms. It is a type of complementary and alternative medicine. 

acupuncture (acupuncture therapy, Zhenjiu)
The practice of pricking or otherwise puncturing a living organism to relieve or eliminate disease, pain, or lethargy in that organism. Acupuncture typically involves inserting needles of various shapes into the skin with the purported aim of stimulating acupoints, which supposedly enable direct influence of the flow of Qi (chi). Practitioners may be called "acupuncturists" or "acupuncture therapists." Most forms of acupuncture are unnaturalistic. Neuro-electric acupuncture and New Scientific ElectroAcupuncture--and, apparently, osteopuncture--are naturalistic.

acupuncture
noun
treatment originating in China, where needles are inserted through the skin into nerve centres in order to relieve pain or treat a disorder, etc.

acupuncture
traditional Chinese therapy in which the body is pricked by sharp needles.

Acupuncture
One of the oldest most commonly used medical procedures in the world, acupuncture originated more than 2,000 years ago in China. Traditional Chinese medicine believes there are more than 2,000 acupuncture points on the human body that connect pathways known as meridians, and conduct energy, or chi, throughout the body

ACUPUNCTURE
A Chinese medical treatment involving the insertion of very fine sterile needles into the body at specific points according to a mapping of "energy pathways." Historically, acupuncture is one component of an overall program of Chinese medicine that includes theory, practice, diagnosis, physiology, and the use of herbal preparations. Acupuncture is used to control pain and to treat other conditions such as allergies or addiction withdrawal. See Alternative Medicine.

Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient oriental medical system based on the energy meridians that run the length of the body. These meridians correspond to the major organs of the body and contain hundreds of acupuncture points. These points are stimulated with special needles that regulate the flow of energy. The points can also be stimulated with low power laser and RED L.E.D. devices. Acupuncture is commonly used to treat pain, but also can be used to treat many conditions including drug or alcohol addiction, sinus problems, tendentious and many other symptoms resulting from improper function of the various organs. Acupuncture was fist discovered on the battlefields of ancient China, when soldiers wounded by arrows reported that other long-standing chronic ailments had suddenly disappeared. Before long, Chinese physicians found that the body has a complex network of invisible energy channels which Ki, the vital energy of life travels. They found 12 major and dozens of minor channels and discovered that each one was functionally related to specific organs and glands. These channels, though invisible to the eye, have been 'mapped' by Kirlian photography in Russia.