different between cupping vs feathering

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cupping, equivalent to cup +? -ing.

Noun

cupping (countable and uncountable, plural cuppings)

1. (medicine, archaic) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot.

   Hyponyms: dry cupping, wet cupping

2. (medicine, archaic) A similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
3. (medicine) Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface.
4. The taking of a small amount of a beverage such as tea or coffee into the mouth in order to taste it; a session where this is done.

Synonyms

• (vacuum treatment): myofascial decompression (MFD) (a modern therapeutic sports injury treatment technique using a partial vacuum to draw blood to the area)

Translations

Further reading

• Fire cupping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From cup +? -ing.

Verb

cupping

1. present participle of cup

English

Verb

feathering

1. present participle of feather

Noun

feathering (plural featherings)

1. Plumage.
2. A feathered texture.
   • 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants

     The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […]

3. The fitting of feathers to arrows.
4. (architecture) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.