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falx
[ falks, fawlks ]
noun
Anatomy.
plural falces
- a structure shaped like a sickle, as a fold of dura mater separating the cerebral hemispheres.
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ڲ· [fal, -sh, uh, l, fawl, -], adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of falx1
1700–10; < New Latin, Latin: sickle
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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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