ACUPUNCTURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and pungere, to prick)

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ACUPUNCTURE (from Lat. acus, a needle, and pungere, to prick) , a form of surgical operation, performed by pricking the

part

PART

affected with a

needle

NEEDLE (O. Eng. ncedl; the word appears in various forms in
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
languages, Ger. Nadel, Dutch naal, the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
being ne-, to sew, cf. Ger. nahen, and probably Lat. nere, to spin, Gr. vi)ats, spinning)

. It has

long

been used by the

Chinese

CHINESE,
JAPANESE
- JAPANESE
AND

in cases of headaches, lethargies,

convulsions

CONVULSIONS

, colics, &c. (See

SURGERY

.)

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