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

This part has a round cavity called fenestra rotunda, which is covered with a thin elastic membrane, and looks into the tympanum.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas

Donasti, Lupe, rus sub urbe nobis; sed rus est mihi maius in fenestra.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

It is in the window of a fenestra.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

Along the posterior edge of the orbital fenestra, there is a narrow, dorsally projecting flange of the pterygoid.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)