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What is a falx?

What is a falx? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a short Dacian sword that resembles a sickle
  2. (anatomy) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
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These folds include the falx cerebri, and the tentorium, which separates the cerebral hemispheres from the cerebellum.
A third, the falx cerebelli, projects downward from the tentorium cerebelli between the two cerebellar hemispheres.
In the falx is a poison-sac from which poison flows through the hollow fang and out at its tip.
One of these, the falx cerebri, is a sickle-shaped partition lying between the two hemispheres of the brain.
From this septum is formed the falx cerebri and other parts.
It is divided into two hemispheres by the falx cerebri, a partition which follows the middle line of the skull.

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