acupuncture

form of alternative medicine
Event alternative_medicine Q121713
acupuncture
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acupuncture

Summary

acupuncture is an alternative medicine[1]. acupuncture ranks in the top 6% of alternative_medicine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,188 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • acupuncture's instance of is recorded as alternative medicine[3].
  • acupuncture's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[4].
  • acupuncture is part of acupuncture and moxibustion[5].
  • acupuncture is part of alternative medicine[6].
  • acupuncture's Commons category is recorded as Acupuncture[7].
  • acupuncture's country of origin is recorded as People's Republic of China[8].
  • acupuncture's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 100 BC[9].
  • acupuncture's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Acupuncture[10].
  • acupuncture's Commons gallery is recorded as Acupuncture[11].
  • acupuncture's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as healthcare:speciality=acupuncture[12].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[14].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[18].
  • acupuncture's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[19].
  • acupuncture's topic has template is recorded as Template:Acupuncture[20].
  • acupuncture's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hant', 'text': '針刺'}[21].
  • acupuncture's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '针刺'}[22].
  • acupuncture's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '鍼治療'}[23].
  • acupuncture's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '침술'}[24].
  • acupuncture's hashtag is recorded as acupuncture[25].
  • acupuncture's is the study of is recorded as acupuncture therapy[26].
  • acupuncture's practiced by is recorded as acupuncturist[27].

Body

Context

Part of include acupuncture and moxibustion[5], an alternative medicine[28] and alternative medicine[6], a field of study[29]. Recorded instance of include alternative medicine[3] and academic discipline[4].

Why It Matters

acupuncture ranks in the top 6% of alternative_medicine entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,188 views/month).[2] acupuncture has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] acupuncture is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . simahacupuncture.com. simahacupuncture.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . simahacupuncture.com. simahacupuncture.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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