The movement of circumduction, as in looking around a room, is performed by the successive actions of the four Recti. From Wordnik.com. [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye] Reference
The movements permitted in the vertebral column are: flexion, extension, lateral movement, circumduction, and rotation. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 5. Articulations of the Trunk. a. Articulations of the Vertebral Column] Reference
The movements admissible in joints may be divided into four kinds: gliding and angular movements, circumduction, and rotation. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 4. The Kind of Movement Admitted in Joints] Reference
The movements of the hip are very extensive, and consist of flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, circumduction, and rotation. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 7. Articulations of the Lower Extremity. a. Coxal Articulation or Hip-joint] Reference
This articulation admits of a limited amount of motion in nearly every directionupward, downward, backward, forward, as well as circumduction. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6. Articulations of the Upper Extremity. a. Sternoclavicular Articulation] Reference
The movements are the same as in the preceding form; that is to say, flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, and circumduction are allowed; but no axial rotation. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 3. Classification of Joints] Reference
In this articulation the movements permitted are flexion and extension in the plane of the palm of the hand, abduction and adduction in a plane at right angles to the palm, circumduction, and opposition. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations] Reference
Every motion is the product of the contraction of one or more of the muscles, which, as it acts upon the bony levers, gives rise to a movement of extension or flexion, abduction or adduction, rotation or circumduction. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
The movements which occur in these joints are flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, and circumduction; the movements of abduction and adduction are very limited, and cannot be performed when the fingers are flexed. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6j. Metacarpophalangeal Articulations] Reference
73 Finally, circumduction is permitted by the combined and consecutive movements of adduction, extension, abduction, and flexion. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6g. Intercarpal Articulations] Reference
(mentioned above); drink two-thirds of a glass of cold water; and spend fifteen to twenty minutes in the following exercises, before dressing: Abdominal lifting with deep breathing, auto-massage, leg raising, trunk twisting, trunk bending -- forward and to sides; lying down for the trunk raising, and sitting for the trunk circumduction. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
A right angle; (3) in the same attitude, after rising on to the balls of the toes, the knees are flexed and then extended before the heels descend again; (4) while seated in a chair, one leg crossed over the other, circumduction movements of the foot are carried out; (5) while standing, the medial border of the foot is raised off the ground several times, then the patient walks to and fro on the lateral border of the foot, and in the same attitude lifts one foot over the other. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
You might have had it with less circumduction. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
Or vniuersall circumduction. From Wordnik.com. [The Battaile of Agincourt] Reference
Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction, pronation, supination, and the lateral movements. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Cain] Reference
The shoulder-joint is capable of every variety of movement, flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, circumduction, and rotation. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6c. Humeral Articulation or Shoulder-joint] Reference
The movements attendant on elevation and depression of the shoulder take place between the clavicle and the articular disk, the bone rotating upon the ligament on an axis drawn from before backward through its own articular facet; when the shoulder is moved forward and backward, the clavicle, with the articular disk rolls to and fro on the articular surface of the sternum, revolving, with a sliding movement, around an axis drawn nearly vertically through the sternum; in the circumduction of the shoulder, which is compounded of these two movements, the clavicle revolves upon the articular disk and the latter, with the clavicle, rolls upon the sternum. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6. Articulations of the Upper Extremity. a. Sternoclavicular Articulation] Reference
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