v. rare. [ad. L. circumclūdĕre to shut in on all sides.] So Circumclusion, an enclosing all round.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 121. To circumclude or shut up.
1730–6. Bailey, Circumclusion, a shutting or enclosing all about. Hence in mod. Dicts.
1881. Syd. Soc. Lex., Circumclusion, a mode of compression of a blood-vessel by passing a needle through the skin, under the vessel, then out through the skin again, and tying a ligature over the two ends of the needle, so as to exercise pressure.
