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
Neckam, writing in that century, refers to the usefulness of the Vine when trained against the wall-front: "Pampinus latitudine suâ excipit æris insultus, cum res ita desiderat, et fenestra clementiam caloris solaris admittat."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
The origin is fleshy and is from the ischium and pubis around the edges of this fenestra; none of the fibers arises from the membrane stretched across the fenestra.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.
Hurst’s view is that with each movement of the stapes a wave is generated which travels up the scala vestibuli, through the helicotrema into the scala tympani and down the latter to the fenestra rotunda.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
The origin, furthermore, is along the dorsal edge of the ischiopubic fenestra and not from the membrane covering the fenestra.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.
