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FALCIFORM PROCESS

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Definitions of FALCIFORM PROCESS

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Process of fascia lata around saphenous opening.
Same as Falx cerebri.
The falx cerebri.
Upper and outer border of saphenous opening.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A prolongation forward and upward of the great sacrosciatic ligament along the ramus of the ischium to the arched upper margin of which is attached the obturator fascia.
The curved outer margin of the saphenous opening.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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