acupuncturen.

Brit.

/ˈakjᵿpʌŋ(k)tʃə/, U.S.

/ˈækjəˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/,

/ˈækjuˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/

Forms: 1600s– acupuncture, 1700s– acupunctura.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin acupunctura.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin acupunctura ( W. ten Rhyne Dissertatio de arthritide..de acupunctura (1683), the source translated in quot. 1684; compare also acuum punctura and acu punctio in the same source) < classical Latin acū , ablative of acus needle (see acicula n.) + post-classical Latin punctura puncture n., with the first element being after Japanese hari needle (8th cent.; compare the note in quot. 1683), acupuncture needle (11th cent. as simplex), acupuncture (late 16th cent.) and also (written with the same kanji) shin- needle (in shinkyū (earlier shinkiu) acupuncture and moxibustion (8th cent.); < Middle Chinese (compare Chinese zhēn jiǔ acupuncture and moxibustion; < zhēn needle, acupuncture + jiǔ moxibustion)). Compare also Japanese hari-shi acupuncturist, literally ‘needle master’ (8th cent.), shinji acupuncture, literally ‘needle healing’ (15th cent. or earlier), haritate acupuncturist, literally ‘(someone) making needles stand’, acupuncture (1604).Compare the following early citations of Chinese and Japanese forms with reference to practitioners (reflecting earlier forms of Japanese haritate acupuncturist, and Chinese zhēn jiǔ acupuncture and moxibustion (although this is not attested in the sense ‘acupuncturist’), as well as Japanese hari needle: see above):1683 W. ten Rhyne Dissertatio de Arthritide..de Acupunctura sig. N2^v Hac qui utuntur Sinis Xinkieu, Japonibus Farritatte, appellantur [marginal note: Farri enim Japonicē acum designat].

A method of medical treatment, originating in China, in which fine needles are inserted into the skin at specific points on the body surface; the performance of this. Also figurative.Acupuncture, used in China for several thousand years, became the object of scientific study in the west in the latter part of the 20th cent., and is now increasingly accepted as a therapeutic technique by western physicians, esp. for pain relief.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > puncture > [noun] > acupuncture

acupuncture1684

acupuncturation1743

acupunctuation1821

needle-puncturing1834

needling1929

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument > pricking

pointurea1393

puncturea1400

pouncingc1410

punction?a1425

pointing1440

pinpricking1706

acupuncture1875

pinholing1879

1684 tr. W. ten Rhyne in tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 33/2 Among themselves, they [sc. the Japanese] have, by the guidance of China, adapted a two-fold method of Cure to the foresaid Diseases, namely, Acupuncture [L. acuum puncturam], and burning with their Moxa.

1723 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis (ed. 2) 505 A great Part of the World, viz. China and Japan, give very few, and those very simple ones, laying their chief Stress, and undertaking to cure almost all Distempers, by Acupuncture and Inustion.

1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan III. 269 The acupunctura is esteem'd a very good remedy for those distempers, which are cured by burning with the Moxa.

1801 E. Darwin Zoonomia III. 254 In cases of strangulated hernia, could acupuncture..be used with safety?

1855 Harper's Mag. June 85/1 He might have died, had not his medical man, piqued at his want of success, decided to resort to the infallible operation called acupuncture.

1875 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) II. vi. 224 The bees this year are..stinging with unusual sharpness of acupuncture.

1929 Science 13 Dec. 564/1 Anatomical charts were assembled which formed the basis for the curious art of needling or acupuncture.

1956 A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 31 Unorthodox medicine tries to influence the autonomic system by direct mechanical action in the form of osteopathy, chiropractic, reflex therapy and acupuncture.

1980 Times 16 Apr. 8/2 Endorphins almost certainly provide the key to the action of acupuncture.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 32/1 The treatment combines acupuncture with hot-oil abdominal therapy, to release and eliminate toxins.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as acupuncture clinic, acupuncture needle, acupuncture treatment, etc.

ΚΠ

1825 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. June 531 On the 7th of February three acupuncture needles were placed in the abdominal parictes.

1898 Pacific Med. Jrnl. 41 63 It is on the line of the old acupuncture treatment with the addition of electricity.

1912 B. Laufer Jade 67 The water along the beach of the sea is wholesome in the cure of sores and ulcers and coveys its beneficial effects to the acupunctue stones.

1986 Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 12/6 Planning permission for an acupuncture clinic at the Old Fleece Hotel, Newerne Street, Lydney, was granted by South Forest planners last week.

2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures xi. 265 These motivate the patient's beliefs that the acupuncture anesthesia will be successful.

C2.

acupuncture point n. any of various specific points on the skin into which fine needles are inserted during acupuncture, and which are also utilized during various related alternative therapies; cf. acupoint n. [Compare post-classical Latin acupungenda loca, compungenda acu loca (W. ten Rhyne 1683); compare also Chinese xué hole, acupuncture point, xué wèi acupuncture point ( < xué + wèi place).]

ΚΠ

1932 K. C. Wong & Wu Lien-teh Hist. Chinese Med. facing p. 27 (caption) Chart showing course of travelling vessels and acupuncture points.

1972 Y. Manaka & I. A. Urquhart Layman's Guide Acupuncture vii. 96 (caption) The point of the needle is placed on the acupuncture point chosen for treatment and the skin is pierced very lightly while the needle is held near its point.

2003 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 23 June 4 e The test is followed by acupressure (finger taps on acupuncture points) along the spine while the patient holds the allergen.

Derivatives

acuˈpunctural adj. of or relating to acupuncture.

ΚΠ

1830 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 33 260 A sort of acupunctural operation above the pubis, by which the ovum may be broken up.

1898 Australasian Med. Gaz. 20 Jan. 44/2 The contents of the booklet are as follows;..III., Instances of Acupunctural Treatment.

1973 Daily Tel. 30 June 5/1 [The] wife of a Norwegian diplomat in Peking was ‘doing fine’ in hospital in Peking after giving virtually painless birth to a baby girl under acupunctural anaesthesia.

2008 Indianapolis Monthly Apr. 70/2 It occurs to me that she'll have to burrow through some, shall we say, inert tissue before hitting anything plausibly acupunctural.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

acupuncturev.

Brit.

/ˈakjᵿpʌŋ(k)tʃə/, U.S.

/ˈækjəˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/,

/ˈækjuˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: acupuncture n.

Etymology: < acupuncture n.

transitive. To perform acupuncture upon; to insert acupuncture needles into (a part of the body). Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1826 N. Amer. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 1 204 A Japanese soldier.., having drank a quantity of cold water, and being in violent pain, was acupunctured in the left side of the abdomen.

1863 Herald of Health Oct. 133/1 Acupuncturing the skin with chirurgical needles would soon set the miserable invalids to thinking for themselves.

1905 E. J. Hardy John Chinaman at Home xi. 126 Once, at Shangai, I joined a crowd in a temple court and saw a man acupunctured for a swollen leg.

1973 Gaz. Tel. (Colorado Springs) 21 Mar. 3 g/4 He acupunctured the back of my right hand..near the webbing between thumb and forefinger.

1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 179 If Wyoming can be said to have been acupunctured for energy, nowhere was this so variously evident as in the southwestern quadrant of the state.

2004 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 20/1 The reason I'm excited by the coverage is that I'm being acupunctured by an extremely cheerful and down-to-earth acupuncturist called Uli.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	acupuncture
释义	acupuncturen. Brit. /ˈakjᵿpʌŋ(k)tʃə/, U.S. /ˈækjəˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/, /ˈækjuˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/ Forms: 1600s– acupuncture, 1700s– acupunctura. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin acupunctura. Etymology: < post-classical Latin acupunctura ( W. ten Rhyne Dissertatio de arthritide..de acupunctura (1683), the source translated in quot. 1684; compare also acuum punctura and acu punctio in the same source) < classical Latin acū , ablative of acus needle (see acicula n.) + post-classical Latin punctura puncture n., with the first element being after Japanese hari needle (8th cent.; compare the note in quot. 1683), acupuncture needle (11th cent. as simplex), acupuncture (late 16th cent.) and also (written with the same kanji) shin- needle (in shinkyū (earlier shinkiu) acupuncture and moxibustion (8th cent.); < Middle Chinese (compare Chinese zhēn jiǔ acupuncture and moxibustion; < zhēn needle, acupuncture + jiǔ moxibustion)). Compare also Japanese hari-shi acupuncturist, literally ‘needle master’ (8th cent.), shinji acupuncture, literally ‘needle healing’ (15th cent. or earlier), haritate acupuncturist, literally ‘(someone) making needles stand’, acupuncture (1604).Compare the following early citations of Chinese and Japanese forms with reference to practitioners (reflecting earlier forms of Japanese haritate acupuncturist, and Chinese zhēn jiǔ acupuncture and moxibustion (although this is not attested in the sense ‘acupuncturist’), as well as Japanese hari needle: see above):1683 W. ten Rhyne Dissertatio de Arthritide..de Acupunctura sig. N2^v Hac qui utuntur Sinis Xinkieu, Japonibus Farritatte, appellantur [marginal note: Farri enim Japonicē acum designat]. A method of medical treatment, originating in China, in which fine needles are inserted into the skin at specific points on the body surface; the performance of this. Also figurative.Acupuncture, used in China for several thousand years, became the object of scientific study in the west in the latter part of the 20th cent., and is now increasingly accepted as a therapeutic technique by western physicians, esp. for pain relief. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > puncture > [noun] > acupuncture acupuncture1684 acupuncturation1743 acupunctuation1821 needle-puncturing1834 needling1929 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument > pricking pointurea1393 puncturea1400 pouncingc1410 punction?a1425 pointing1440 pinpricking1706 acupuncture1875 pinholing1879 1684 tr. W. ten Rhyne in tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 33/2 Among themselves, they [sc. the Japanese] have, by the guidance of China, adapted a two-fold method of Cure to the foresaid Diseases, namely, Acupuncture [L. acuum puncturam], and burning with their Moxa. 1723 D. Turner De Morbis Cutaneis (ed. 2) 505 A great Part of the World, viz. China and Japan, give very few, and those very simple ones, laying their chief Stress, and undertaking to cure almost all Distempers, by Acupuncture and Inustion. 1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan III. 269 The acupunctura is esteem'd a very good remedy for those distempers, which are cured by burning with the Moxa. 1801 E. Darwin Zoonomia III. 254 In cases of strangulated hernia, could acupuncture..be used with safety? 1855 Harper's Mag. June 85/1 He might have died, had not his medical man, piqued at his want of success, decided to resort to the infallible operation called acupuncture. 1875 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) II. vi. 224 The bees this year are..stinging with unusual sharpness of acupuncture. 1929 Science 13 Dec. 564/1 Anatomical charts were assembled which formed the basis for the curious art of needling or acupuncture. 1956 A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 31 Unorthodox medicine tries to influence the autonomic system by direct mechanical action in the form of osteopathy, chiropractic, reflex therapy and acupuncture. 1980 Times 16 Apr. 8/2 Endorphins almost certainly provide the key to the action of acupuncture. 2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 32/1 The treatment combines acupuncture with hot-oil abdominal therapy, to release and eliminate toxins. Compounds C1. General attributive, as acupuncture clinic, acupuncture needle, acupuncture treatment, etc. ΚΠ 1825 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. June 531 On the 7th of February three acupuncture needles were placed in the abdominal parictes. 1898 Pacific Med. Jrnl. 41 63 It is on the line of the old acupuncture treatment with the addition of electricity. 1912 B. Laufer Jade 67 The water along the beach of the sea is wholesome in the cure of sores and ulcers and coveys its beneficial effects to the acupunctue stones. 1986 Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 12/6 Planning permission for an acupuncture clinic at the Old Fleece Hotel, Newerne Street, Lydney, was granted by South Forest planners last week. 2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures xi. 265 These motivate the patient's beliefs that the acupuncture anesthesia will be successful. C2. acupuncture point n. any of various specific points on the skin into which fine needles are inserted during acupuncture, and which are also utilized during various related alternative therapies; cf. acupoint n. [Compare post-classical Latin acupungenda loca, compungenda acu loca (W. ten Rhyne 1683); compare also Chinese xué hole, acupuncture point, xué wèi acupuncture point ( < xué + wèi place).] ΚΠ 1932 K. C. Wong & Wu Lien-teh Hist. Chinese Med. facing p. 27 (caption) Chart showing course of travelling vessels and acupuncture points. 1972 Y. Manaka & I. A. Urquhart Layman's Guide Acupuncture vii. 96 (caption) The point of the needle is placed on the acupuncture point chosen for treatment and the skin is pierced very lightly while the needle is held near its point. 2003 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 23 June 4 e The test is followed by acupressure (finger taps on acupuncture points) along the spine while the patient holds the allergen. Derivatives acuˈpunctural adj. of or relating to acupuncture. ΚΠ 1830 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 33 260 A sort of acupunctural operation above the pubis, by which the ovum may be broken up. 1898 Australasian Med. Gaz. 20 Jan. 44/2 The contents of the booklet are as follows;..III., Instances of Acupunctural Treatment. 1973 Daily Tel. 30 June 5/1 [The] wife of a Norwegian diplomat in Peking was ‘doing fine’ in hospital in Peking after giving virtually painless birth to a baby girl under acupunctural anaesthesia. 2008 Indianapolis Monthly Apr. 70/2 It occurs to me that she'll have to burrow through some, shall we say, inert tissue before hitting anything plausibly acupunctural. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). acupuncturev. Brit. /ˈakjᵿpʌŋ(k)tʃə/, U.S. /ˈækjəˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/, /ˈækjuˌpəŋk(t)ʃər/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: acupuncture n. Etymology: < acupuncture n. transitive. To perform acupuncture upon; to insert acupuncture needles into (a part of the body). Also figurative. ΚΠ 1826 N. Amer. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 1 204 A Japanese soldier.., having drank a quantity of cold water, and being in violent pain, was acupunctured in the left side of the abdomen. 1863 Herald of Health Oct. 133/1 Acupuncturing the skin with chirurgical needles would soon set the miserable invalids to thinking for themselves. 1905 E. J. Hardy John Chinaman at Home xi. 126 Once, at Shangai, I joined a crowd in a temple court and saw a man acupunctured for a swollen leg. 1973 Gaz. Tel. (Colorado Springs) 21 Mar. 3 g/4 He acupunctured the back of my right hand..near the webbing between thumb and forefinger. 1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 179 If Wyoming can be said to have been acupunctured for energy, nowhere was this so variously evident as in the southwestern quadrant of the state. 2004 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 20/1 The reason I'm excited by the coverage is that I'm being acupunctured by an extremely cheerful and down-to-earth acupuncturist called Uli. 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