Near the mid line of the body, and at right angles to the last, another reflection, the falciform ligament, runs forward, and the line of attachment of this indicates the junction of the right and left lobes of the liver.
The attachment of the falciform ligament is continued down it.
Meyer describes the sand-hills of the Peruvian desert as perfectly falciform in shape and from seven to fifteen feet high, the chord of their arc measuring from twenty to seventy paces.
Poeppig ascribes a falciform shape to the movable, a conical to the fixed dunes, or medanos, of the same desert.
In the great American desert between the Andes and the Pacific, Meyen found sand heaps of a perfect falciform shape.
The narrow point was passed into a fistula, caught, and the whole instrument pulled outwards by means of it, thus dividing the overlying tissues with the falciform blade.
The second, from Paul, shows that the blade was falciform and was operated in the manner I have stated.
This was a falciform blade whose end was blunt, but the handle end was prolonged into a slender, rounded sound-like portion with a sharp point (Pl.
Plate 44, the upper cornu of the falciform process; and behind, it is in connexion with, k, the conjoined tendon.
The falciform process also blends with the ligament; and thus it is that the femoral hernia, when constricted by either of these three structures, may well be supposed to suffer pressure from the three together.
By this measure, the falciform process, 6, is also relaxed; but I doubt whether the situation occupied by Gimbernat's ligament allows this part to be influenced by any position of the limb or abdomen.
The part which occupies the canal is also very much compressed; and again, where the hernia turns over the falciform process, this structure likewise must cause considerable compression on the bowel in the sac.
H h, blends by its falciformmargin with the superficial fascia, and also with N n, the sheath of the femoral vessels.
Plate 44, and F, the falciform edge of the saphenous opening.
The femoral vein, O, Plate 30, is separated from the falciform margin, S s, of the saphenous opening by one of these septa.
The iliac part of the fascia lata; h, the upper cornu of itsfalciform process.
The broad ligament extends across the convex cephalic surface of the liver uniting it to the ventral abdominal wall and diaphragm, while its free falciform edge apparently stops at the umbilical notch in the ventral border of the organ.
Caudad its two layers pass into each other in a free concave edge, including between them the umbilical vein (free edge of falciform ligament of adult).
The segment of the ventral mesogastrium between liver and stomach becomes the lesser or gastro-hepatic omentum, while that between liver and ventral abdominal wall forms the falciform or suspensory ligament.
Ventral portion, between diaphragm and liver, forms the broad falciform or suspensory ligament of the liver.
Course of umbilical vein in ventral abdominal wall and along free edge of falciform ligament to liver (Fig.
Caudad, the lesser omentum and the suspensory ligament are seen to have a common concavefalciform edge.
Hence caudad of this falciform edge the two halves of the cavity communicate freely with each other ventrad of the intestine and dorsal mesentery.
The liver divides the ventral mesogastrium into a dorsal segment, the gastro-hepatic or lesser omentum, and a ventral segment, the suspensory or falciform ligament of the liver.
The part of the membrane connecting the liver with the anterior abdominal wall constitutes the falciform or suspensory ligament of the liver.
The septum dividing the body cavity from the pericardial cavity is prolonged backwards, till it meets the ventral wall of the body at the point where the liver is attached by its ventral mesentery (falciform ligament).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "falciform" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crescent; falcate; horned; lunar; semicircular; sigmoid
