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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUPPING, ppr. Applying a cupping-glass, with scarification; a drawing blood with a cupping-glass.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century an operation of drawing blood to the surface of the body by use of a glass vessel evacuated by heat

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cup Cup, v. t. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Moby Thesaurus

aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, leeching, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, venesection