From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cup \Cup\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cupped} (k[u^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cupping}.]
1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.]
Cup us, till the world go round. --Shak.
2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See {Cupping}.
3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cupping \Cup"ping\ (k?p"p?ng), noun (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.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
2: the quantity a cup will hold; "he drank a cup of coffee"; "he borrowed a cup of sugar" [syn: {cupful}]
3: a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle; "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"
4: a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition; "the school kept the cups is a special glass case" [syn: {loving cup}]
5: any cup-shaped concavity; "bees filled the waxen cups with honey"; "he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"; "the cup of her bra"
6: the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green; "he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away"; "put the flag back in the cup"
7: a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
8: cup-shaped plant organ
verb
1: form into the shape of a cup; "She cupped her hands"
2: put into a cup; "cup the milk"
3: treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin [syn: {transfuse}] [also: {cupping}, {cupped}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "cupping": aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, leeching, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, venesection
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