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
It is in the window of a fenestra.
From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude
The distance from the posterior end of the quadrate to the visible posterior edge of the orbital fenestra, which opens ventrally, is 10.0 mm.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
Fenestra ovalis and fenestra rotunda, the oval and the round window; two apertures in the bone between the tympanic cavity and the labyrinth of the ear.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
The spelling looks British, and the ancient British borrowed a good many words direct from the Latin, ffenstr for example, from fenestra, for window, doubtless a new idea to them.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)
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 trabeculae are united together by these thickened internodes, and the result is a fenestrated septum, which in older septa may become solid and aporose by continual deposit of calcite in the fenestrae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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 Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
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
