acupressure

What does acupressure mean?

acupressure means "treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body".

How many syllables are in acupressure?

acupressure has 4 syllables and divides as a-cu-pres-sure under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for acupressure?

Close synonyms include G-Jo, shiatsu. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acupressure a common word?

acupressure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for acupressure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.