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
It is in the window of a fenestra.
From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude
The origin, furthermore, is along the dorsal edge of the ischiopubic fenestra and not from the membrane covering the fenestra.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.
Pueri walking by the house Saw caput in fenestra, Et sunt morati for a while To see quis erat in there.
From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan
The spelling looks British, and the ancient British borrowed a good many words direct from the Latin, ffenstr for example, from fenestra, for window, doubtless a new idea to them.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)
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 Anderson, Sydney
The external lamina, on the front of the cell, is perforated by a certain number of holes, is wanting rather in a certain number of spaces, for which spaces the term fenestrae is employed.
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
