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
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
It is in communication with the middle ear through a small opening in the bone, called the fenestra ovalis, at which place it is separated from the middle ear only by a thin membrane.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
The word fenestra is illustrated by a previous section of the Rule, No. lxxxii. p.
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
It is in the window of a fenestra.
From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein
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
But besides the fenestrae, there is, in some cases, a small central opening which does penetrate through the wall.
Cells furnished with a narrow elongated band or vitta on each side, without fenestrae.
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
