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Definition of Pressure point
1. Noun. Any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point.
2. Noun. Where problems or difficulties are likely to occur. "A key pressure point in the controversy was the building permit"
3. Noun. An area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure. "You must know the pressure points in order to administer shiatsu"
Definition of Pressure point
1. Noun. (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressure Point
Literary usage of Pressure point
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"Each pressure point in the skin, therefore, has a local sign, ... The center of
each is a pressure point and the area is determined by the distance from ..."
2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"Each pressure point in the skin, therefore, has a local sign, ... The center of
each is a pressure point and the area is determined by the distance from ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"The physiological unit may be anatomically complex. At a pressure-point the skin
possesses a number of nerve fibres which are spread out flat in the ..."
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