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falciform

ADJECTIVE
  1. curved like a sickle
    falcate claws
    a falcate leaf
    the falcate moon

How To Use falciform In A Sentence

  • These lobes are separated by a smooth membrane called the falciform ligament. DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK
  • In either case, the hernia, increasing in size, turns up over the margin of F, the falciform process, [Footnote 2] and ultimately rests upon the iliac fascia lata, below the pubic third of Poupart's ligament. Surgical Anatomy
  • Diagnostic laparoscopy was performed, which revealed dilated veins in the omentum and falciform ligament, a nodular liver, and a mass in the right lower quadrant.
  • It is covered anteriorly by, P, Fig. 1, Plate 44, the upper cornu of the falciform process; and behind, it is in connexion with, k, the conjoined tendon. Surgical Anatomy
  • The liver is surrounded by splanchnopleure with a mesentery (the lesser omentum) connecting it to the stomach and to the ventral body wall (falciform ligament).
  • The appendix does not have a true mesentery; however, in about 90% of cases it is provided with a falciform fold of peritoneum, the mesoappendix, which is continuous with the dorsal (original left) surface of the mesentery of the ileum.
  • On the right side, the section passes through the right lobe of the liver, the caudate lobe, and the falciform ligament.
  • On cutting through the falciform process, F, Fig. 1, Plate 44, we find Gimbernat's ligament, R, a structure well known in connexion with femoral hernia. Surgical Anatomy
  • Diagnostic laparoscopy was performed, which revealed dilated veins in the omentum and falciform ligament, a nodular liver, and a mass in the right lower quadrant.
  • The letter indicates the situation of the common femoral artery; h, the falciform edge of the saphenous opening. Surgical Anatomy
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