falxn.

/falks/

Forms: Plural falces.

Etymology: Latin falx scythe or sickle.

1. Anatomy. A process of the dura mater, sometimes called falx cerebri. falx cerebelli (see quot. 1860).

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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Falx..one of the Processes..of the..Dura Mater.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 83 In it a little Process of the Falx is lodged.

1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 435 There is a bony falx of some breadth.

1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. 97 The ‘crista galli’, which gives attachment to the falx cerebri.

1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Falx Cerebelli..term for a triangular portion of the dura mater..separating the two lobes of the cerebellum.

1874 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 231 The falx is occasionally found cribrated.

†2. Zoology. Obsolete. Each of the paired cheliceræ of spiders; sometimes used to mean only the basal section of a chelicera (see quot. 1889) and in this sense = paturon n.

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1848 J. Blackwall in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1852) 21 37 The instruments employed by the Araneidea to seize and destroy their prey are improperly denominated mandibles…I propose..to name them falces.

1866 E. F. Staveley Brit. Spiders ii. 12 Below the eyes and above the mouth is a pair of jaw-like organs, known as the falces.

1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. iii. vi. 216 With the rapidest motion..it [sc. a spider] flashed its falces into my flesh.

1889 H. C. McCook Amer. Spiders I. i. 22 Each mandible is composed of two parts, the base or falx and the fang... The falx is covered with hair, especially near the base, and at the apex is formed into a toothed groove or sheath into which the fang is folded down when at rest.

1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions xx. 288 He [sc. a spider] might come stealthily back at night to plunge his long, crooked falces into my throat.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	falx
释义	falxn. /falks/ Forms: Plural falces. Etymology: Latin falx scythe or sickle. 1. Anatomy. A process of the dura mater, sometimes called falx cerebri. falx cerebelli (see quot. 1860). ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Falx..one of the Processes..of the..Dura Mater. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 83 In it a little Process of the Falx is lodged. 1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 435 There is a bony falx of some breadth. 1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. 97 The ‘crista galli’, which gives attachment to the falx cerebri. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Falx Cerebelli..term for a triangular portion of the dura mater..separating the two lobes of the cerebellum. 1874 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 231 The falx is occasionally found cribrated. †2. Zoology. Obsolete. Each of the paired cheliceræ of spiders; sometimes used to mean only the basal section of a chelicera (see quot. 1889) and in this sense = paturon n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > parts of > chelicera chelicer1835 falx1848 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Scorpiones > member of (scorpion) > parts of > claw(s) > basal section of falx1889 paturon1970 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > parts of > chelicera > basal section of falx1889 paturon1926 1848 J. Blackwall in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1852) 21 37 The instruments employed by the Araneidea to seize and destroy their prey are improperly denominated mandibles…I propose..to name them falces. 1866 E. F. Staveley Brit. Spiders ii. 12 Below the eyes and above the mouth is a pair of jaw-like organs, known as the falces. 1885 H. O. Forbes Naturalist's Wanderings Eastern Archipel. iii. vi. 216 With the rapidest motion..it [sc. a spider] flashed its falces into my flesh. 1889 H. C. McCook Amer. Spiders I. i. 22 Each mandible is composed of two parts, the base or falx and the fang... The falx is covered with hair, especially near the base, and at the apex is formed into a toothed groove or sheath into which the fang is folded down when at rest. 1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions xx. 288 He [sc. a spider] might come stealthily back at night to plunge his long, crooked falces into my throat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1706
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