falx

[falks, fawlks]

noun

Anatomy.

plural

falces 

1. a structure shaped like a sickle, as a fold of dura mater separating the cerebral hemispheres.

Other Word Forms

• falcial adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of falx¹

1700–10; < New Latin, Latin: sickle

Example Sentences

Between the two halves of the brain is an area called the falx.

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By splitting the falx, the two halves could communicate together and equalize the pressure between her hemispheres.

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Hoc ipsum falx est; haec mora messis erit.

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Falx, falks, n. a sickle-shaped part or process, as of the dura mater of the skull: a chelicera: a poison-fang of a snake: a rotula of a sea-urchin:—pl.

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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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