falx

American  

[falks, fawlks] / fælks, fɔlks /

noun

Anatomy.

• falces
  plural

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

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• falcial
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• falces
  plural

Etymology

Origin of falx

1700–10; < New Latin, Latin: sickle

Example Sentences

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falx falces

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2015

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2015

It is located midsagittally between the meningeal and periosteal layers of the dura mater within the falx cerebri and, at first glance in images or models, can be mistaken for the subarachnoid space.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Vocabulary.— falcibus = with bill-hooks; falx perh. akin to flect-o = bend, from its shape.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

A smaller sickle-shaped vertical mesial band, the falx cerebelli, attached to the internal occipital crest, passes between the two hemispheres of the cerebellum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

In other she carries it in her falces until the young are hatched.

From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan

They did nothing so vulgar and natural as to make use of their falces, and never once actually touched each other, but the fight was none the less deadly.

From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Their long, shiny black, sickle-shaped falces are dangerous weapons.

From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson