Acuto Words: "acicula" to "superacute"
Words that include: acuto-, acut-, acuti-, acu-, -cusis
(Latin: sharp, to sharpen, point; needle, pin).
acicula:
A technical name for a slender needle-like body; such as, the spines or prickles with which some animals and plants are furnished, or the needle-like crystals of certain minerals.
acicular:
Needle-like; resembling a slender needle or bristle, as the leaves of pine-trees, and various crystals.
aciculate, aciculated:
1. Marked or striated with scratches or having such an appearance.
2. Shaped like a needle; acicular.
3. Furnished or clothed with aciculae; marked as with needle-scratches.
aciculiform:
Needle-shaped.
aciculum:
A projecting cluster of bristles or setae found in certain annelid worms or a fingerlike or handlike bristle seen in certain flagellate protozoa.
acuate:
Needle shaped, sharp-pointed.
acuation:
Sharpening, rendering acute.
acuclosure:
Hemostasis achieved by the placement of needles.
acufilopressure:
The combined use of acupression and ligation to control bleeding.
acuition:
The act of sharpening.
acuity:
1. Acuteness, keeness, as of thought or vision; severity.
2. Special degree of sensitivity.
aculeate:
1. Pointed; covered with sharp spines.
2. Bearing a stinger, as some bees and wasps.
3. As a figure of speech: pointed, incisive, stinging.
aculeated:
1. Pointed, sharpened to a needle-like point; armed with prickles.
2. As a figure of speech: pointed, incisive, keen, pungent.
aculeation:
A state, or condition, of being sharpened or pointed.
aculeiform:
Spine-shaped, like a prickle.
aculeolate:
1. Little sharp-pointed spines.
2. Pointed, covered with sharp spines.
aculeous:
Needle-like, stinging.
aculeus:
1. The sting of an insect or other animal.
2. A conical elevation of the skin of a plant, becoming hard and sharp-pointed: as with the rose.
3. A hair-like projection.
acumen:
Keeness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation, shrewdness; keenness of discrimination.
acuminate:
Pointed; tapering to a point or sharply pointed.
acumination:
1. The action of sharpening or bringing to a point; giving a point to.
2. Tending towards a point.
acuminous:
Distinguished by acumen; acute.
acuminulate:
Slightly pointed or tapering.
acuology:
The study of the use of needles for therapeutic purposes, as in acupuncture.
acuologist:
A specialist in the use of needles for therapeutic puroses.
acupoint:
A sharp point or the point where a needle is applied.
acuporession:
The compresson of bleeding vessels by the insertion of needles into adjacent tissue; acupressure.
acupressure:
1. Applicatioin of pressure in sites used for acupuncture with therapeutic intent.
2. In medicine, the compression of a bleeding vessel by inserting needles into adjacent tissue; also pressure points in the body used for finger or hand massage for remedial purposes.
acupressurist:
Someone who applies acupuncture for therapeutic purposes.
acupunctuate, acupunctuation:
To stick with a needle or pin.
acupuncturation:
The practice or process of acupuncture.
acupuncture:
1. The ancient oriental practice of piercing parts of the body with needles to treat diseases or to relieve pain; more recently, "acupuncture anesthesia" or "analgesia".
2. As adapted in Western medicine, the needles may be twirled or weak electrical current applied; also called stylostixis.
acupunturist:
One who practices acupuncture.
acus:
A needle or needlelike instrument.
acusection:
Cutting by means of an electrosurgical needle.
acusector:
An electric needle used like a scapel for incising (cutting) into tissue.
acusis:
The ability to perceive sound normally.
acutance:
The sharpness of a photographic or printed image; a numerical measure of this.
acutangular:
Having acute angles; acute-angled.
acute:
1. Having a sharp point.
2. Keen or quick of mind, shrewd.
3. Severe and sharp, as pain.
4. Of great importance or consequence; crucial: "an acute lack of financial resources."
5. In geometry, designating angles less than 90 degrees.
acutely:
1. Of senses and feelings: Keenly, delicately; sharply, poignantly.
2. Of the mental faculties: With ready or quick apprehension, with keen penetration, shrewdly.
3. Of things material: Sharply.
acuteness:
1. Of things material: Sharpness of point or edge.
2. Of a disease or pain: Sharpness, keenness.
3. Of sounds: Shrillness, high pitch.
4. Of the senses or feelings: Keenness, quickness, sensitiveness.
acutiangle:
Acute-angled.
acutifoliate:
Sharp-leaved.
acutilingual:
Sharp tongued.
acutilobate:
Sharp-lobed.
acutish:
Somewhat acute.
cute:
1. Clever; sharp; shrewd; pretty or attractive.
2. Cute was originally a shortened form of acute in the sense of being "keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd". It is considered likely that cute came to be used as a term of praise, or approval, for things that demonstrated "acuteness", and so it went on to develop its own sense of being "attractive" and "fetching".
hyperacuity:
Increased sharpness of sense perception.
hypoacuity:
Decreased sharpness of sense perception.
hyperacusis:
Increased sharpness of hearing.
peracute:
Very acute, said of a disease.
subacute:
Less than acute.
superacute:
Extremely acute; marked by extreme severity of symptoms and rapid progress, as of the course of a disease.
The quickest way to experience acupuncture is to try on a new shirt.
—Anonymous
Acupuncture has its points.
—Anonymous
Blunt words often have the sharpest edges.
—E.C McKenzie
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