circus movement

circus movement
1. a peculiar circular gait; an involuntary rolling or tumbling movement, the result of lesions of the brain and basal nerve centers. 2. continuous cycling of an excitatory wavefront in a ring or circuit around muscle, such as around a region of cardiac tissue in reentry (q.v.).

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