Word Meanings - ACROMIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the acromion. Dunglison.

Related words: (words related to ACROMIAL)

• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ACROMION
  The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• METACROMION
  A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.