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🧑‍✈️ Guiding or leading 💪 Limb movement
duction

duction

9.9
Movement of a limb toward or away from the middle of the body
  • noun
  • /ˈdʌkʃən/
  • Specialized
: aducción
  • The physical therapist instructed the patient on how to perform a proper duction of the shoulder during rehabilitation exercises.

Examples

  • Diplopia is rarely due to inferior rectus muscle entrapment, and can easily be determined with a forced duction test.

    Academic text (2011)

  • If a forced duction test is negative for true entrapment of the inferior rectus, we wait up to two weeks to see if diplopia resolves, or if symptomatic enophthalmos of more than 2 mm develops.

    Academic text (2011)

  • In las Vegas, investigators still have no leads to the whereabouts of rising star... ...whose ab duction by Sonny Steele triggered a massive search.

    The Electric Horseman (1979)

  • During the physical examination, the doctor assessed the duction of her arm to check for any range of motion limitations.

  • He focused on the duction of his leg while practicing yoga to improve his flexibility.

How Far

overextension
  • Specialized
6.8
duction
  • Specialized
9.9
movement
636 1.5

Surface Forms

duction singular
ductions plural

Morphology

duction = duc + tion

The anatomical meaning is a specialized technical sense and is not transparently derived for an average learner from the combining form 'duc' + '-tion'.

Etymology

Duction comes from the Latin ducere 'to lead', the same root you see in conduct. In medicine duction means how a limb is 'led' toward or away from the middle of the body, which is why therapists check it to see how well a joint moves.