acromion

acromion

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “highest”) + Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”).

Noun

acromion (plural acromions or acromia)

1. (anatomy) The outermost point of the shoulder blade.
   • 1807, William Beatty, The Death of Lord Nelson‎:

     "The ball struck the fore part of HIS LORDSHIP'S epaulette; and entered the left shoulder immediately before the processus acromion scapulae, which it slightly fractured.

   • 1904, Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery‎:

     The deltoid is wasted, and the acromion unduly prominent.

   • 1998 November 13, Paul C. Sereno et al., “A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids”, in Science‎, volume 282, number 5392, DOI:10.1126/science.282.5392.1298, pages 1298-1302:

     Complete pectoral and pelvic bones show a deep subrectangular acromion on the scapula and a low obturator flange on the ischium.

   • 1999 August 27, Steve Ward et al., “Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya”, in Science‎, volume 285, number 5432, DOI:10.1126/science.285.5432.1382, pages 1382-1386:

     The preserved portions of the scapula are sufficient to determine that the acromion projected well beyond the glenoid and that the axillary margin was longer than the vertebral.

   • 2009, Science‎, pages 2239-2242:

     The clavicle is a small flat bone like that of a dog (1), here preserved near the coracoid processes lying parallel to and slightly behind the acromion.

Derived terms

• acromial
• acromioplasty
• metacromion

Translations

outermost point of the shoulder blade

Catalan: acromi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 肩峰 (jiānfēng) Czech: nadpažek m Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: olkalisäke German: Schulterhöhe (de) f Greek: Ancient: ἀκρώμιον n (akrṓmion) Ido: akromio (io) Indonesian: akromion (id) Malay: akromion Portuguese: acrómio m (Portugal), acrômio m (Brazil) Romanian: acromion (ro) n Serbo-Croatian: akromìōn (sh) m Spanish: acromion (es) m Swedish: akromion (sv)

Anagrams

• Comorian, Románico, armonico, armónico, macroion

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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros), "highest" + Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos), "shoulder".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kʁɔ.mjɔ̃/

Noun

acromion m (plural acromions)

1. (anatomy) acromion

Derived terms

• acromial

Further reading

• “acromion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French acromion.

Noun

acromion n (plural acromioane)

1. acromion

Declension

Declension of acromion

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) acromion	acromionul	(niște) acromioane	acromioanele
genitive/dative	(unui) acromion	acromionului	(unor) acromioane	acromioanelor
vocative	acromionule		acromioanelor

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros, “highest”) + Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “shoulder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈkɾomjon/ [aˈkɾo.mjõn]
• Rhymes: -omjon
• Syllabification: a‧cro‧mion

Noun

acromion m (plural acrómiones)

1. (anatomy) acromion

Related terms

• acromial
• acromiano

Further reading

• “acromion”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014