(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Upon reviewing the professional literature, a paucity of information on acupressure was discovered.
(2) In addition, acupressure manifested biphasic regulatory effects on sinus arrythmia.
(3) Using a single subject experimental design, six hospice patients were exposed to three conditions: An acupressure wrist band; A placebo wrist band; A no wrist band condition.
(4) The effectiveness of the "Sea Band" acupressure band compared with placebo and hyoscine (0.6 mg), also known as scopolamine, to increase tolerance to a laboratory nauseogenic cross-coupled motion challenge was assessed using 18 subjects.
(5) Auto-acupressure replaced outpatient prescriptions for analgesics, ergotamine preparations, steroids, propanolol or methysgeride.
(6) Having seen pregnant women pressing the P6 point as a preventative for morning sickness, stimulation of this point for 5-10 minutes by invasive (manual or electrical acupuncture) or non-invasive (transcutaneous electrical stimulation or acupressure) means was studied as an antiemetic.
(7) This article uses acupuncture theory and research to provide a theoretical basis for the use and study of acupressure.
(8) Injection therapy was of four different types: lidocaine, lidocaine combined with a steroid, acupuncture, and vapocoolant spray with acupressure.
(9) Use of acupressure resulted in a significantly lower frequency of morning sickness compared with placebo treatment.
(10) Subjects in Group 1 (N = 8) used acupressure wristbands for five days, followed by five days without therapy.
(11) While acupressure reduces morning sickness, the pressure has to be applied for 5 minutes every 2 hours.
(12) This effect can be prolonged for 24 hours by acupressure.
(13) During a 12-day period, organized in four steps of 3 days each, the women were divided into two homogeneous groups to test the effectiveness of unilateral and bilateral acupressure.
(14) More than a 60% positive effect was found with unilateral and bilateral acupressure, compared with an approximately 30% positive effect of placebo acupressure.
(15) There were two independent variables with two levels each: acupressure vs. placebo, and motion sickness high vs. low susceptible subjects.
(16) Blinded by a fever in infancy, Chen attended the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to study acupressure, one of the few occupations available to blind people in China .
(17) This study assessed the effects of acupressure wrist bands on the nausea and vomiting of terminally ill patients.
(18) Sixty-six patients, ages 3-12 yr, undergoing outpatient surgery for correction of strabismus, were allocated randomly to receive either bilateral P6 acupressure or placebo during the perioperative period.
(19) The resuscitation effect is based not only on strictly determined points but also on diffusive irritation of respective point and its surroundings by acupressure.
(20) The curative effect of acupressure on essential vascular hypertension was good.
Cutaneous
Definition:
(a.) Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(2) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.
(3) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
(4) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
(5) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(6) We have characterized previously a model of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) following cutaneous infection.
(7) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(8) Investigations in normal subjects demonstrate that the LLR is a reflex mediated by fast conducting muscle and cutaneous afferents.
(9) There was an isolated patient in whom IgA-CIC seemed to correlate with the clinical events of cutaneous and systemic involvement.
(10) A rare coincidence of cutaneous Rhinosporidiosis and Lepromatous leprosy is reported.
(11) Patients with a Bricker cutaneous ureteroileostomy will essentially benefit from this possibility.
(12) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
(13) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(14) We have previously characterized the kinetics of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) production at cutaneous sites of allergic inflammation employing a blister-chamber model.
(15) No guidelines for the margin of resection of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma have been based on data measuring subclinical tumor extension, as have been formulated for basal cell carcinoma.
(16) Capillary neogenesis, probably in reaction to subclinical cutaneous vascularity, was detected in 59% of cases (86% of subjects presenting extra-articular rheumatism).
(17) We conclude that endothelial cell populations with different levels of collagen gene expression exist within cutaneous neurofibromas: some are actively expressing type I and VI collagen genes, whereas in other the expression of these genes is effectively down-regulated.
(18) Cutaneous lesions did not develop, and in the lymph nodes the average weight and number of treponemes detected were significantly lower than in normal and control hamsters.
(19) Thirty-four family members had cutaneous malignant melanoma, and 31 of these 34 also had histologically confirmed dysplastic nevi.
(20) In those patients not on steroids the results showed a good correlation with the cutaneous Kveim test.