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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acupuncturist

1843, from acupuncture + -ist.

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acupuncturist

n. A healthcare professional who is qualified or professionally engaged in the practice of acupuncture.

Usage examples of "acupuncturist".

Before that, he had spent time with the acupuncturist, the aromatherapist, and his speech trainer.

She had worked for her father, an acupuncturist from Taiwan who owned many condominiums and houses in the affluent neighborhoods surrounding the university.

An experienced acupuncturist is said to be able to discern from the pulses hundreds of different tensions and forms of activity.

Gurus, swamis, psychics, Tarot-card readers, acupuncturists, herbalists to movie stars, channelers, aura interpreters, palm readers, chaos-theory dice counselors, past-life guides, high-colonic therapists, and other specialists offered their services in heartening numbers.

Every other day a renowned acupressurist visited him, and once a week, like clockwork, his acupuncturist arrived to do his work.

Among sensitive physicians, acupuncturists and moxitherapists there are some who feel very tired after examining patients (specially in serious diseases like cancer), or feel pain or malaise in the area where the affection is located.

This phenomenon, which is empirically recognized by physicians like acupuncturists or moxitherapists, who use manual techniques, is a serious problem.

Many of the people around him were speaking Cantonese, the dialect of the south, but aside from the language, this neighborhood was just like portions of his town, Liu Guoyuan—or any small city in China: movie theaters showing Chinese action and love films, the young men with long slicked-back hair or pompadours and challenging sneers, the young girls walking with their arms around their mothers or grandmothers, businessmen in suits buttoned snugly, the ice-filled boxes of fresh fish, the bakeries selling tea buns and rice pastries, the smoked ducks hanging by their necks in the greasy windows of restaurants, herbalists and acupuncturists, Chinese doctors, shop windows filled with ginseng roots twisted like deformed human bodies.

Over the months her court had consulted herbalists, acupuncturists, doctors, even soothsayers to no avail.