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ACUPUNCTURIST

Specialty Definition: ACUPUNCTURIST

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Occupations

Administers specific therapeutic treatment of symptoms and disorders amenable to acupuncture procedures, as specifically indicated by supervising physician: Reviews patient's medical history, physical findings, and diagnosis made by physician to ascertain symptoms or disorder to be treated. Selects needles of various lengths, according to location of insertion. Inserts needles at locations of body known to be efficacious to certain disorders, utilizing knowledge of acupuncture points and their functions. Leaves needles in patient for specific length of time, according to symptom or disorder treated, and removes needles. Burns bark of mugwort tree in small strainer to administer moxibustion treatment. Covers insertion area with cloth and rubs strainer over cloth to impart heat and assist in relieving patient's symptoms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ACUPUNCTURIST

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Health

If a patient is under the care of an acupuncturist and a physician, both practitioners should be informed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACUPUNCTURIST

"ACUPUNCTURIST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACUPUNCTURIST" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACUPUNCTURIST

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acupuncturist

43

acupuncturist salary

4

acupuncture acupuncturist education employ new york

3

acupuncturist in licensed massachusetts

3

acupuncturist diego in san

2

acupuncturist arts

2

acupuncturist job

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ACUPUNCTURIST

Language Translations for "ACUPUNCTURIST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏اخصائي العلاج بالوخز. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

acupuncteur. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

akupunkturisto. (various references)

   

French

  

acuponcteur. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

akupunkturista. (various references)

   

Italian

  

agopuntore. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鍼医 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はりい. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acupuncturistay

   

Portuguese

  

acupunturista. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

специалист по акупунктуре, специалист по иглоукалыванию, иглотерапевт. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acupunturista, acupuntor. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

akupunkturcu. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

голкотерапевт. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ACUPUNCTURIST

Derivations

Words beginning with "ACUPUNCTURIST": acupuncturists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ACUPUNCTURIST" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accupuncturist. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ACUPUNCTURIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-n-p-r-s-t-t-u-u-u"

-4 letters: urticants.

-5 letters: antirust, cantrips, crucians, curtains, instruct, naturist, pantsuit, puritans, pursuant, taciturn, tipcarts, turnspit, unitrust, urticant.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-n-p-r-s-t-t-u-u-u"
 

+1 letter: acupuncturists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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