Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Anatomy A small opening, especially either of two windowlike apertures in the medial wall of the middle ear.
- n. The opening in a bone made by surgical fenestration.
- n. Zoology A transparent spot or marking, as on the wing of a moth or butterfly.
- n. Architecture A windowlike opening.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, a foramen; specifically; one of certain foramina of the inner ear. See phrases below.
- n. In entom.: A transparent spot in an opaque surface, as in the wings of certain butterflies and moths
- n. One of two perforations, covered with membrane, on the head of a cockroach, above the insertions of the antennæ. They have been regarded as rudimentary ocelli. See cut under Insecta.
- n. In surgery, an opening in a splint or immovable dressing to permit of inspection of the part or to relieve pressure.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear)
Etymologies
- Latin, window. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“‘Quanti canicula ille in fenestra’ on February 12, 2010 at 12: 07 am Claustrophobic inspector”
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“The word fenestra is illustrated by a previous section of the Rule, No.LXXXII. p. 30.”
“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.”
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
“This part has a round cavity called fenestra rotunda, which is covered with a thin elastic membrane, and looks into the tympanum.”
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
“This encloses an open space or "fenestra," so that the neck was not completely protected above.”
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
“It comes from the Latin de + fenestra, meaning window.”
“Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti.”
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
“In ipsa uero ecclesia. in aliqquo loco intermedio inter sorores et exteriores aptetur aliqua fenestra ferrea competentis magnitudinis. in qua fiant sermones: et in aliquo loco apto due fenestre paruule ferrate ad confessiones audiendas.”
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
“I should have mentioned the temporal fenestra thing, but I wrote it late last night :P”
“It now seems that nearly all of the characters proposed initially to distinguish Tupuxuara from other pterodactyloid pterosaurs are problematic in not being unique to the genus, but in fact Tupuxuara is clearly diagnosable, being unique in having a sort of deep premaxillary crest in which the dorsal margin extends subparallel to the dorsal margin of the nasoantorbital fenestra (Martill & Naish 2006, p. 931).”
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Interesting words
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words-for-apocalipstick
all your words are belong to me.
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It's a Lepidopteran
Names of butterflies and moths that I find interesting, and terms associated with citizens of Lepidoptera.
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Random
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Holes
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Hole
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Winter 12
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