Definitions for falx

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Spelling: [falks, fawlks]
IPA: /fælks, fɔlks/

Falx is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in falx (aflx).

Definitions for falx

noun

  1. a structure shaped like a sickle, as a fold of dura mater separating the cerebral hemispheres.

Origin of falx

1700-10; New Latin, Latin: sickle

Examples for falx

In the falx is a poison-sac from which poison flows through the hollow fang and out at its tip.

Falcons (from falx, a reaping-hook) are marvellously organised for rapine, and realise the ideal of a bird of prey.

Into this cleft dips a portion of the dura mater, called the falx cer´e-bri, from its resembling a sickle.

From this septum is formed the falx cerebri and other parts.

The Faus (falso: from falx) appears to have been a kind of spear with a broad, cut-and-thrust blade.

It is divided into two hemispheres by the falx cerebri, a partition which follows the middle line of the skull.

Word Value for falx
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