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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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
These are the falciform ligament, the coronary ligament, two lateral ligaments, and the ligamentum teres hepatis.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Pöppig ascribes a falciform shape to the movable, a conical to the fixed dunes, or medanos, of the same desert.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
Into the ventral mesentery the liver grows as diverticula from the duodenum, so that some of the mesentery remains as the falciform ligament of the liver and some as the lesser omentum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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