Usually means: Circular movement of a limb.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word circumduction:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumduction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. circumduction: Collins English Dictionary
  3. circumduction: Vocabulary.com
  4. circumduction: Wordnik
  5. circumduction: Wiktionary
  6. circumduction: Dictionary.com
  7. Circumduction (anatomy), Circumduction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Circumduction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. circumduction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. circumduction: Rhymezone
  11. Circumduction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. circumduction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. circumduction: FreeDictionary.org
  14. circumduction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. circumduction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. circumduction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumduction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumduction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. circumduction: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Circumduction: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  7. circumduction: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumduction)

noun:  (anatomy) The circular (or, more precisely, conical) movement of a body part, such as a ball-and-socket joint or the eye. It consists of a combination of flexion, extension, adduction, and abduction.
noun:  (Scots law) The act of circumducing.

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