Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Circumduction

Circumduction , noun

[Latin circumductio.]

1.
A leading about; circumlocution. [Rare] — Hooker
2.
An annulling; cancellation. [Rare] — Ayliffe
3.
(Physiology) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a conical surface.