pressure point

noun

a point on the skin that is extremely sensitive to pressure because of the presence of pressure-sensing organs.
a point on the body where relatively slight pressure serves to press an artery lying close to the surface against underlying bony tissue, so as to arrest the flow of blood into a part.
a sensitive, crucial area or issue against which concerted persuasion or pressure tactics can be wielded to produce a desired result:
Lobbyists attempt to find the pressure points of government.

pressure point

any of several points on the body above an artery that, when firmly pressed, will control bleeding from the artery at a point farther away from the heart

First recorded in 1875–80

Evans used a “pressure point control technique,” one of the officers testified in his deposition.

There is no similar pressure point today that would make Republicans accept more revenues.

And the right pressure point on North Korea is not found on the Korean peninsula at all.

From a policy perspective, this is the next battleground, the pressure point of resistance for the hard-shell ideologues.

Stockman, who gets airsick when buffeted by the winds, has pressure-point wristbands and a patch on her neck to combat the nausea.

The battlefield of the future will encompass every pressure point that controls or influences the elements of the battle.

We cannot discriminate the one pressure point from the other.

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