ACROMIAL PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acromial process mean? 

• ACROMIAL PROCESS (noun)
  The noun ACROMIAL PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade

  Familiarity information: ACROMIAL PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACROMIAL PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

acromial process; acromion

Hypernyms ("acromial process" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Holonyms ("acromial process" is a part of...):

scapula; shoulder blade; shoulder bone (either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings)