单词 | acupuncturation |
释义 | acupuncturationn. Now historical. = acupuncture n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > puncture > [noun] > acupuncture acupuncture1684 acupuncturation1743 acupunctuation1821 needle-puncturing1834 needling1929 1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. ii. 313 The famous Operation of the Chinese and Japonese, termed Acupuncturation [L. acupunctura]. 1821 Monthly Mag. 52 448 Acupuncturation..consists in inserting a needle into the muscular parts of the body, to the depth, sometimes, of an inch. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. iv. 47 Her Majesty..throws into him, as with invisible needle-points, an excellent dose of acupuncturation, on the subject of the Primitive Fathers. 1900 Montreal Med. Jrnl. 29 533 Acupuncturation as a remedial agent in painful affections, dates back for over 200 years, when it was used in both China and Japan. 1973 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Sept. 649/2 If there are differences in the themes on which their authors discourse in the 1823 and 1973 Lancets the two volumes have at least one thing in common, and that oddly enough is acupuncture, or ‘acupuncturation’ as it was then called. 2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures xi. 260 In 1825 he tested ‘acupuncturation’, as it was frequently called, on seventeen prisoners whose afflictions ran the gamut from ‘chronic pains’ and headache to rheumatism and ophthalmia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1743 |
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