fenestra
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In most meat-eating dinosaurs, a ridge of bone provides a roof over an opening in the skull in front of the eye sockets known as the antorbital fenestra.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2020
Along the posterior edge of the orbital fenestra, there is a narrow, dorsally projecting flange of the pterygoid.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
This part has a round cavity called fenestra rotunda, which is covered with a thin elastic membrane, and looks into the tympanum.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
The word fenestra is illustrated by a previous section of the Rule, No. lxxxii. p.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
Vireo olivaceous, the origin of this muscle does not extend the length of the ischiopubic fenestra.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by William B. Stallcup
Temporal fenestrae are post-orbital openings in the skull that allow muscles to expand and lengthen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Furthermore, their supratemporal fenestrae are proportionally small and become smaller during ontogeny.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2012
Torosaurus’s is larger and flatter, with two large circular holes called fenestrae on either side of it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2012
The wide spaces left between the bands in front clearly represent the true nature of the fenestrae of other species.
The selective pressures both for the inception and continued expansion of the fenestrae differed from group to group.
From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Richard C. Fox
The usual explanation, which makes insertas an epithet transferred by a sort of hypallage from Luna to fenestras, is extremely violent, and makes the word little more than a repetition of se fundebat.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
