'Cupping' definitions:
Definition of 'cupping'
From: WordNet
noun
A treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface
Definition of 'Cupping'
From: GCIDE
- Cup \Cup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupped (k[u^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupping.]
- 1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Cup us, till the world go round. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cupping'
From: GCIDE
- Cupping \Cup"ping\ (k?p"p?ng), n. (Med.) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. [1913 Webster]
- Cupping glass, a glass cup in which a partial vacuum is produced by heat, in the process of cupping.
- Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc.
- Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cupping'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aspiration,
- bleeding,
- bloodletting,
- broaching,
- drafting,
- drainage,
- draining,
- drawing,
- emptying,
- leeching,
- milking,
- phlebotomy,
- pipetting,
- pumping,
- siphoning,
- sucking,
- suction,
- tapping,
- venesection
Words containing 'Cupping'
- Cup,
- Cup and can,
- Cupful,
- Cupfuls,
- Cupped,
- cups,
- Cup and ball,
- Cup shake,
- Cup sponge,
- Cupping glass,
- Dry cup,
- Dry cupping,
- Golden cup,
- Grace cup,
- Grease cup,
- Huntsman's cup,
- Loving cup,
- Neptune's cup,
- Painted cup,
- Poison cup,
- Race cup,
- Siphon cup,
- Squirrel cup,
- Standing cup,
- Stirrup cup,
- Tantalus's cup,
- To be in one's cups,
- To crush a cup,
- Wassail cup,
- Wet cup,
- Wet cupping,
- acorn cup,
- blood cup,
- brown cup,
- champagne cup,
- claret cup,
- coffee cup,
- cup and saucer,
- cup corals,
- cup final,
- cup fungus,
- cup hook,
- cup morel,
- cup of tea,
- cup tie,
- davis cup,
- death cup,
- dice cup,
- dixie cup,
- drain the cup,
- egg cup,
- elf cup,
- eye cup,
- fairy cup,
- floral cup,
- fringe cups,
- huntsman's cups,
- measuring cup,
- moustache cup,
- mustache cup,
- optic cup,
- paper cup,
- queen's cup,
- scarlet cup,
- squirrel cups,
- suction cup,
- sweet cup,
- world cup,
- Cup-gall,
- Cup-moss,
- Cup-rose,
- Egg-cup,
- Monkey-cup,
- Sneak-cup,
- black felt cup,
- charred pancake cup,
- cup-shaped,
- monkey-cups,
- rufous rubber cup,
- bone-ash cup,
- cup-and-saucer vine,
- flower-cup fern,
- mossy-cup oak