pressure spotn.
/ˈprɛʃə ˌspɒt/, U.S. /ˈprɛʃər ˌspɑt/ 1. A small area on the skin specially sensitive to pressure; a pressure point.
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1887 G. T. Ladd Physiol. Psychol. 410 The finest point, when it touches a ‘pressure-spot’, produces a sensation of pressure, and not one of being pricked.
1939 R. S. Woodworth Exper. Psychol. xix. 456 The pressure spots lie mostly on the ‘windward’ side of the hair, i.e., close over the hair follicle.
1989 L. Krueger tr. D. Katz World of Touch ii. 66 The view that the sensation of a pressure spot is something particularly elementary could only be held by an atomistically oriented sensory psychologist.
2. A spot where pressure is applied; esp. one made sensitive or painful by the continued application of pressure.
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1979 R. Dunn tr. Hsiang-yang Han Chinese Approaches to Family Planning ii. 172 When the pressure spot is found more accurately and the method is well-practiced, so that after each time the pressure method is used, there is no seminal fluid found in the condom, then one can begin to stop using the condom.
1990 I. Rankin Hide & Seek 85 He didn't need to know the secret pressure spots to be able to place a freemason.
1995 Jrnl. Oral Rehabilitation 22 717 Those patients whose dentures were equilibrated with the central-bearing-point method..suffered on average from fewer pressure spots.
1997 Clin. Orthopaedics No. 340. 18 A special technique of using test shoes with transparent thermomoldable stiff plastic materials is introduced to reveal pressure spots in advance of finishing the definitive shoe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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