Usage examples (17)

• The movement of circumduction, as in looking around a room, is performed by the successive actions of the four Recti.
• —The movements permitted in the vertebral column are: flexion, extension, lateral movement, circumduction, and rotation.
• The movements admissible in joints may be divided into four kinds: gliding and angular movements, circumduction, and rotation.
• —The movements of the hip are very extensive, and consist of flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, circumduction, and rotation.