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Answer for the clue "The outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade ", 8 letters:
acromion

Word definitions for acromion in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In human anatomy, the acromion (from Greek: akros , "highest", ōmos , "shoulder", plural: acromia) is a bony process on the scapula (shoulder blade). Together with the coracoid process it extends laterally over the shoulder joint . The acromion is a continuation ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade [syn: acromial process ] [also: acromia (pl)]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acromion \A*cro"mi*on\, n. [Gr. ?; 'a`kros extreme + ? shoulder: cf. F. acromion.] (Anat.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The outermost point of the shoulder blade.

Usage examples of acromion.

On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.

There is a case on record of a boy of fourteen who was shot in the right shoulder, the bullet entering through the right upper border of the trapezius, two inches from the acromion process.

She was so emaciated, barely hidden by a loose tank top with a picture of Snoopy, that I could see, as if on X ray, the clavicle, acromion, the coracoid process.