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発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈkroʊ.mi.ən/

名詞

acromion (複数形 acromions または acromia)

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

     "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^[2]:

     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^[3], volume 282, number 5392, →DOI, 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^[4], volume 285, number 5432, →DOI, 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^[5], 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.

派生語

• acromial
• acromioplasty
• metacromion

アナグラム

• Comorian, Románico, armonico, armónico, macroion