acupuncture

English Thesaurus

1. treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin (noun.act)

hypernym	:	intervention, treatment,
definition	:	care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) (noun.act)

domain region	:	cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china,
definition	:	a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world (noun.location)