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Noun: pressure point
  1. Any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
    "The paramedic applied pressure to the pressure point to slow the bleeding"
     
  2. An area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
    "you must know the pressure points in order to administer shiatsu"
     
  3. Where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
    "a key pressure point in the controversy was the building permit"

Derived forms: pressure points

Type of: area, ill, point, prob [informal], problem, region, trouble

Part of: body, cutis, organic structure, skin, tegument

Encyclopedia: Pressure point