Falx (disambiguation)

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Falx (Latin for "sickle") means:

  • Falx , crescent-shaped weapons of antiquity
  • the following structures in medicine:
    • Falx cerebri , cranial sickle of the hard meninges that protrudes between the two hemispheres of the cerebrum
    • Falx cerebelli , dural duplication that protrudes between the hemispheres of the cerebellum
    • Falx inguinalis , inguinal sickle, the inner boundary of the inner inguinal ring of the inguinal canal