Falx

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Falx \Falx\, n. [L., a sickle.] (Anat.)
     A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum;
     esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which
     extend into the great fissures of the brain.
     [1913 Webster]