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fenestra

[fi-nes-truh] / fɪˈnɛs trə /


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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

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 Albert F. Blaisdell

Vireo olivaceous, the origin of this muscle does not extend the length of the ischiopubic fenestra.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by William B. Stallcup

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 Sydney Anderson

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 William B. Stallcup

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

Prelambdoidal breadth.—between the medialmost margins of the prominent fenestrae in the posterodorsal parts of the squamosal bones.

From Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus montanus, in Wyoming and Colorado by Sydney Anderson

If modern views of selection are applied to the problem of explaining the appearance of temporal fenestrae, the possibility cannot be ignored that: 1.

From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Richard C. Fox

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


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