Noun

(en-noun)

(anatomy) The outermost point of the shoulder blade.

* {{quote-book, year=1807, author=William Beatty, title=The Death of Lord Nelson, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="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. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles, title=Manual of Surgery, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The deltoid is wasted, and the acromion unduly prominent. }}

* {{quote-journal, 1998, date=November 13, Paul C. Sereno et al., A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids, Science citation

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

* {{quote-journal, 1999, date=August 27, Steve Ward et al., Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya, Science citation

, passage=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. }}

* {{quote-journal, 2009, date=//, , , Science citation

, passage=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 . }}