fenestra

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

The posteroinferior vomerine process extends directly posteriorly and then angles sharply posterodorsally, enclosing an elliptical vomerine fenestra.

From Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor Gunther by William E. Duellman

Only one of these differences, the elongation of the posterodorsal squamosal fenestra, was the same as a difference noted above between topotypes of uligocola and modestus.

From Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent Areas by Sydney Anderson

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

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 Susan Paxson

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

Mouth very large; avicularia wide and strong; two lateral areae on each side, well developed; surface in front with a few indistinct circular spots around the fenestrae, and behind marked with faint longitudinal striae.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

The openings for the internal nares, the ventral orbital fenestrae, and the subtemporal fossae are readily recognized.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton

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