different between hemorrhage vs acupressure

English

Alternative forms

• (Commonwealth English) haemorrhage

Etymology

From Latin haemorrhagia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (haimorrhagía, “a violent bleeding”), from ?????????? (haimorrhag?s, “bleeding violently”), from ???? (haîma, “blood”) + -????? (-ragía), from ???????? (rh?gnúnai, “to break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?m(?)??d?/

Noun

hemorrhage (countable and uncountable, plural hemorrhages)

1. (American spelling) A heavy release of blood within or from the body.

   We got news that he died of a hemorrhage.

Synonyms

• bleeding

Translations

Verb

hemorrhage (third-person singular simple present hemorrhages, present participle hemorrhaging, simple past and past participle hemorrhaged) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To bleed copiously.

   He's hemorrhaging!

2. (transitive) To lose (something) in copious quantities.

   The company hemorrhaged money until eventually it went bankrupt.

Translations

Further reading

• hemorrhage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hemorrhage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• hemorrhage at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Blend of acupuncture +? pressure

Noun

acupressure (countable and uncountable, plural acupressures)

1. (uncountable) An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
2. (countable) An act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.
   • 2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher

     The warm needles of water acted like tiny acupressures on his face.

3. (dated) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.

Translations

See also

• acupuncture
• circumclusion
• retroclusion
• torsoclusion

Further reading

• acupressure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.