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- New Latin · borrowed fromfalx cerebrī“the sickle of the brain”
- English todayfalx cerebri
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin falx cerebrī (“the sickle of the brain”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
falx cerebri
Today it means: The larger of the two folds of dura mater separating the hemispheres of the brain that lies between the cerebral hemispheres and contains the sagittal sinuses. Full definition →
New Latin falx cerebrī