fenestra in English

noun
1
a small natural hole or opening, especially in a bone. The mammalian middle ear is linked by the fenestra ovalis to the vestibule of the inner ear, and by the fenestra rotunda to the cochlea.
Displacement of bones obscures anatomical details, but the fenestra ovalis seems to be absent.
2
an artificial opening.
Similarly, the postfrontal is damaged ventrally between the orbit and the infraorbital fenestra .

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1. The cochlea is filled with fluid and is connected with the middle ear by two membrane-covered openings, the oval window (fenestra vestibuli) and the round window (fenestra Cochleae)

2. The Cochlea is filled with fluid and is connected with the middle ear by two membrane-covered openings, the oval window (fenestra vestibuli) and the round window (fenestra Cochleae)

3. The cochlea is filled with fluid and is connected with the middle ear by two membrane-covered openings, the oval window (fenestra vestibuli) and the round window (fenestra Cochleae)

4. The Cochlea is filled with fluid and is connected with the middle ear by two membrane-covered openings, the oval window (fenestra vestibuli) and the round window (fenestra Cochleae)

5. In section configuration, the depressions are either triangle or reversed trapezoid - fenestra structure.

6. This also led to a broadening of the base of the lateral temporal fenestra, a large opening behind the eyes.

7. ANATOMICAL STUDY OF FORAMEN VESALIUS The foramina of the carotid circulation consist of pattern 1 (sensu Voss, 1988); a thick Alisphenoid strut is present, and the subsquamosal fenestra is large (Figs.

8. DiApsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes ( temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period

9. The lacrimal bone formed not only the back margin of the antorbital fenestra, a large opening between eye and bony nostril, but also part of its upper margin, unlike in members of the related Abelisauridae.

10. Traditionally, the Anapsida are the most primitive subclass of reptiles, the ancestral stock from which Synapsida and Diapsida evolved, making Anapsids paraphyletic.It is however doubtful whether all Anapsids lack temporal fenestra as a primitive trait, or whether all the groups traditionally seen as Anapsids truly