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say it: A-kyoo-puhngk-chur
acupuncture is a noun meaning "treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin". It is pronounced /ˈækjuˌpʌŋktʃɚ/ — A-kyoo-puhngk-chur. It carries one recorded sense.
treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin
China
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for acupuncture come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.