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
The word fenestra is illustrated by a previous section of the Rule, No. lxxxii. p.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
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.
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
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
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
Anterior surface with numerous small round fenestrae, placed at equal distances apart, and evenly distributed over the surface, the circumferential fenestrae being larger than the rest.
Front of cell with nine pyriform fenestrae, with fissures proceeding from their pointed ends towards an oval central perforation.
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
