Anat. Pl. falces. [L. falx scythe or sickle.] A process of the dura mater, sometimes called falx cerebri. Falx cerebelli (see quot. 1860).
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey). Falx.… In Anatomy, one of the Processes made by the doubling of the Membrane, or Skin of the Scull, call’d Dura Mater, which divides the Brain into the Right and Left Parts and also separates it from the Cerebellum.
1741. A. Monro, Anat. Bones (ed. 3), 83. In it a little Process of the Falx is lodged.
1800. Phil. Trans., XC. 435. There is a bony falx of some breadth.
1855. Holden, Human Osteol. (1878), 119. The ‘crista galli,’ which gives attachment to the falx cerebri.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Falx Cerebelli. Anat. Term for a triangular portion of the dura mater … separating the two lobes of the cerebellum.
1874. Jones & Siev., Pathol. Anat., 231. The falx is occasionally found cribrated.
