The act of bending or curving around something; the quality of being curved or arched.
From circumflect plus -ion suffix, following Latin nominalization patterns. Developed in English anatomy and geometry terminology.
Anatomists use this when describing how muscles or tendons curve around bones—it's the bending action that allows your wrist to rotate and your spine to flex in multiple directions.
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