circumclusion

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English

Etymology

From Latin circumcludere, circumclusum (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

Noun

circumclusion (usually uncountable, plural circumclusions)

  1. The act of enclosing on all sides.
  2. (dated) An acupressure technique in which the pin is passed beneath the vessel, the wire loop placed over its point, and the ends brought over the artery and made fast.
    Coordinate terms: retroclusion, torsoclusion

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “circumclusion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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