a. [f. L. falc-em sickle + -(I)FORM.] Sickle-shaped, curved, hooked. Frequent in Anat., as in falciform cartilage, ligament, process, etc.
1766. Pennant, Zool. (1776), III. 236. Immediately behind this fin was another, tall and falciform.
1787. Hunter, in Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 410. The right lobe is the largest … its falciform ligament broad.
1798. Hooper, Med. Dict., Falciform process, the falx, a process of the dura mater, that arises from the crista galli, separates the hemispheres of the brain and terminates in the tentorium.
1836. R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, I. 13. The fold which passes upwards towards the liver is falciform.
1838. Blackw. Mag., XLIII. May, 651/1. See what a graceful curve completes the classic profile of Napoleon: what a falciform, embattled, and warlike organ leads the van of Wellington’s heroic countenance: what a salient and irresponsible index of the aspiring soul within starts from amid the intellectual features of Grattan!
