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ACUPRESSURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and premere, to press)

ACUPRESSURE (from See also:
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Lat. acus, a See also:
NEEDLE (O. Eng. ncedl; the word appears in various forms in Teutonic languages, Ger. Nadel, Dutch naal, the root being ne-, to sew, cf. Ger. nahen, and probably Lat. nere, to spin, Gr. vi)ats, spinning)
needle, and premere, to See also:
PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)
press) , the name given to a method of restraining See also:

HAEMORRHAGE (Gr. atµa, blood, and prryvvvac, to burst)

haemorrhage, introduced by See also:

Sir J . Y . See also:

Simpson, the See also:

DIRECT

direct pressure of a metallic See also:

NEEDLE (O. Eng. ncedl; the word appears in various forms in Teutonic languages, Ger. Nadel, Dutch naal, the root being ne-, to sew, cf. Ger. nahen, and probably Lat. nere, to spin, Gr. vi)ats, spinning)

needle, either alone or assisted by a See also:

LOOP

loop of See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire, being used to See also:

close the See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel near the bleeding point .

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