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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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A third, the falx cerebelli, projects downward from the tentorium cerebelli between the two cerebellar hemispheres.
These folds include the falx cerebri, and the tentorium, which separates the cerebral hemispheres from the cerebellum.
The closest differential diagnosis on imaging for a convexity or falx chondroma is meningioma.
One of these, the falx cerebri, is a sickle-shaped partition lying between the two hemispheres of the brain.
The falx is narrow and attached firmly to the crista galli of the ethmoid bone.
The Late Latin falco is believed to derive from falx as meaning a sickle, referencing the claws of the bird.

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