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Definition of Falciform
1. Adjective. Curved like a sickle. "The falcate moon"
Definition of Falciform
1. a. Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
Definition of Falciform
1. Adjective. Sickle-shaped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Falciform
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Falciform
1. Having a crescentic or sickle shape. Synonym: falcate. Origin: L. Falx, sickle, + forma, form (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falciform
Literary usage of Falciform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"It occupies the right hypochondrium, and is separated from the left lobe, on its
upper and anterior surfaces by the falciform ligament; on its under and ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thu spure protoplasm has now divided Into several falciform swarm-spores, leaving
a portion of ... Single sporo from the last, showing falciform young and a ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The spore protoplasm has now divided into several falciform swarm-spores, ...
Single spore from the last, showing falciform young and a Schneider's residue ..."
4. Medical gynecology by Howard Atwood Kelly (1912)
"The mechanical injuries cause deep lacerations of the cervix, extending down onto
the lateral walls, in the form of falciform scars, Fia. 111. ..."
5. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"... but mark mere atrophy and non-development resulting from fetal inflammation—a
process that may leave strands, knobs, or falciform folds of membrane ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"The outer antennae are eight-jointed; uropods exserted; outer ramus falciform,
about twice the length of the uropods, inner ramus shorter and more slender. ..."
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