аппликатор

07:26 Mar 4, 2020 

Wow! Thank you! Accupressure tools must be just what I need, judging by a Google Images search.

11:22 Mar 3, 2020 

11:17 Mar 3, 2020 

There's discussion of this iplicator/iplikator here and there, e.g.
"my family and our various acquaintances were big fans of the so-called Kuznetsov's iplicator (see Russian Wikipedia for illustration)".

So I've learnt something here! And here:

Kuznetsov then decided to pierce a sheet of tire rubber with thousands of office pins ¼ inch apart and lay on it to reach the acupressure points of his back. His idea worked and called his invention "Iplikator" and filed a patent in 1979. Since his invention, thousands of clinics in Russia tested the Iplikator and it was featured in a science magazine called Invention and Rationalization in 1981. The Department of Public Health in Russia approved the manufacturing and sale of the device with no trials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupressure_mat

The words аппликатор and ипликатор seem to get confused often enough, but I'd expect a ГОСТ to use the term 'аппликатор' correctly.

So Kuznetsov invented the Ипликатор... short for 'иголоаппликатор'?

11:00 Mar 3, 2020 

'Аппликатор' in the type of text I often deal with is 'applicator'. If you have access to the EDQM website, you can look it up there: https://standardterms.edqm.eu/
It's one of those very standard terms that are agreed internationally.

What we may be dealing with here is a bit of terminological confusion. I see that Kuznetsov's product is sometimes called an 'iplicator'. The word seems to be their own invention - I haven't seen it anywhere else.

10:51 Mar 3, 2020 

Some applicators also have a massage function: https://www.completecareshop.co.uk/therapeutic-aids/massage-...

- but, OK, I've looked at Kuznetsov's product, and I see that it doesn't apply any massage oil or lotion to the skin. My first impression was: hm, looks like a bit of semantic shift here.