falciform
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- subfalciform adjective
Etymology
Origin of falciform
1760–70; < Latin falci- (stem of falx ) sickle + -form
Example Sentences
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These are the falciform ligament, the coronary ligament, two lateral ligaments, and the ligamentum teres hepatis.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The falciform ligament and ligamentum teres hepatis are actually remnants of the umbilical vein, and separate the right and left lobes anteriorly.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Galen asserts that all animals that are born when the moon is falciform, or at the half-quarter, are weak, feeble, and shortlived; whereas those that are dropped in the full moon are healthy and vigorous.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Tschudi observed, in the same desert, two species of dunes, fixed and movable, and he ascribes a falciform shape to the movable, a conical to the fixed dunes, or medanos.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
They also are falciform, but one extremity is rounded, the other pointed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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