[
UK
/fˈɛnɛstɹɐ/
]
NOUN
- a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear)
How To Use fenestra In A Sentence
- The reaction to what was seen as Hodgson's rather skewed perspective contributed to the campaign to have the manager defenestrated.
- The fused parietals form the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal crest, expanding posteriorly to form a flattened, sculpted deck behind the supratemporal fenestrae adjacent to the squamosals.
- It comes from the Latin de + fenestra, meaning window. Collecting My Thoughts
- The two supratemporal fenestrae begin to close, getting smaller, sometimes asymmetrically.
- A few unexpected moves push these time-honored forms into the modern world: extreme angles to the roof pitches, compressed fenestration with staggered window sizes, and square dormers.
- The Republican House members defenestrated the outspoken proponent of "moral values" then serving as speaker, and his would-be successor, too.
- However, as the temporal fenestra expands to ludicrous proportions in the cynodonts, the skull table is reduced to a saggital crest formed by the parietal.
- The incomplete squamosals also slope laterally and ventrally away from the parietals, slightly depressing posterior margin of the supratemporal fenestrae.
- Unfortunately, the kids 'space could have been much improved if the building design hadn't been negatively impacted by foolish conceits about historic design which determined the fenestration of the basement wall on the south side. Georgetown Library to reopen
- The palatines lie between the suborbital fenestrae, with the anterior palatine processes forming a short V-shaped wedge.