circumduction

Circumduction is a circular movement of the joint, such as drawing a circle with the arm and wrist straight.

In anatomy, circumduction means to move a limb in a circular manner.

The patient uses circumduction to compensate for gluteal weakness.

A sporting example of circumduction occurs when performing a serve in tennis or bowling a cricket ball.

It is classified as a simple hinge-joint, which allows for movements of flexion, extension and circumduction.

Moving a limb back to its neutral position is called reposition and a rotary movement is referred to as circumduction.

This permits movement in two planes, allowing flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, and circumduction.

Circumduction is defined as the movement pattern which is a combination of flexion, extension, adduction and abduction.

Circumduction - The circular (or, more precisely, conical) movement of a body part, such as a ball-and-socket joint or the eye.

The movements permitted in the metatarsophalangeal articulations are flexion, extension, abduction, adduction and circumduction.

Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction, pronation, supination, and the lateral movements.

Circumlocution (also called periphrasis, circumduction, circumvolution, or ambage) is an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech.

It is inserted on the deltoid tuberosity of the humerus and has several actions including abduction, extension, and circumduction of the shoulder.

The McMurray test, also known as the McMurray circumduction test is used to evaluate individuals for tears in the meniscus of the knee.

The movements are as same as in the condyloid joint; that is to say, flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, and circumduction are allowed; but no axial rotation.

Circumduction can be best performed at Ball and socket joints, such as the hip and shoulder, but may also be performed by other parts of the body such as fingers, hands, feet, and head.

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 while the fingers form a fist.

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.