acupressure

What it means

1. uncountableAn alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
2. countableAn act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.

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

   2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher

3. countabledateduncountableA 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.

In a sentence

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

2001, Sherwood Smith, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict--Auger's Teacher

Where it comes from

Blend of acupuncture + pressure. By surface analysis, acu- + pressure.