falx cerebelli

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Introduction

A short process of dura mater projecting anteriorly from the occipital crest below the tentorium cerebelli.

It is situated in the posterior cerebellar notch & the vallecula, bifurcating into two parts attaching to either side of the foramen magnum.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999