acupuncturation

[ACUPUNCTURE.) The making of a puncture or punctures by means of a needle. A le proper word than ACUPUNCTURE (q.v.). "From forgetting that the word puncture has twe significations that it is used to signify both the wound and the act of making it some have termed the operation acupuncturation ."-Cyclo. Pract. Med., art. "Acupuncture."