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falx
[ falks, fawlks ]
noun
, Anatomy.
, plural fal·ces [fal, -seez, fawl, -].
- a structure shaped like a sickle, as a fold of dura mater separating the cerebral hemispheres.
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Other Words From
- fal·cial [fal, -sh, uh, l, fawl, -], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of falx1
1700–10; < New Latin, Latin: sickle
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Example Sentences
From this septum is formed the falx cerebri and other parts.
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It is divided into two hemispheres by the falx cerebri, a partition which follows the middle line of the skull.
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It seems possibly to be the Latinized form of the Teutonic Falk, though falx is commonly accounted its root.
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Into this cleft dips a portion of the dura mater, called the falx cer´e-bri, from its resembling a sickle.
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Qu (trabes) aut adunco prfigitur ferro, et falx vocatur ab eo quod incurva est, ut de muro extrahat lapides.
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