Noun: acupuncture
| Singular | acupuncture |
| Plural | acupunctures |
Sample Sentences
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Chinese doctors at Chishan County Hospital in Shansi Province have used acupuncture on the scalp to cure a patient suffering from paralysis of the right limbs caused by inflammation of the brain’s blood vessels. [1974 October 16, “Acupuncture”, in The Jerusalem Post, volume XLIV, number 14221, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:]
Nouns inflected like acupuncture
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.
3. Proto-Italic *akus
4. Latin acus
5. Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.
6. Proto-Italic *pungō
7. Latin pungō
8. Latin pūnctus
9. Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
10. Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
11. Latin -tūra
12. Latin pūnctūra
13. New Latin acūpūnctūralbor.
14. English acupuncture
15. Learned borrowing from New Latin acūpūnctūra, from Latin acus + pūnctūra. First attested in 1684. By surface analysis, acu- + puncture.
Verbs referencing "acupuncture"
Finnish Nouns
akupunktuuri, Polish Nouns
akupunktura.