Medical Definition of Falces
1. Plural of falx. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falces
Literary usage of Falces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"Colour of both falces and fangs (excepting the extremities of the latter and base
of the former, which are rather lighter-coloured) dark black-brown and ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The parts of the mouth consist of two movable pieces, or falces, in front of
which is another piece (labium) ; on each side of the labium is a strong piece ..."
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