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

Corrupt: I suppose the meaning to be that the king saw the woman out of his window: camera or fenestra is wanted.

From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

The stapes, or stirrup, has its end of an oval shape, which fits a small hole called fenestra ovalis, in that part of the ear called the labyrinth, or innermost chamber of the ear.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas

The pars posticus originates by a broad, flat tendon on a line across the posterior half of the membrane that covers the ischiopubic fenestra.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.

Pueri walking by the house Saw caput in fenestra, Et sunt morati for a while To see quis erat in there.

From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan