circumduction

circumduction is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.An annulling; cancellation. [R.] Ayliffe.
  2. 2.(Phisiol.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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