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 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 Duellman, William E.
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 Anderson, Sydney
Vnde verò foramen vel fenestra illa montana, per quam clamores, strepitus & tumultus apud antipodes, periæcos & antæcos factos exaudiremus?
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
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.
