Definition of Fenestrae

1. fenestra [n] - See also: fenestra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fenestrae

fending off
fendliche
fends
fends off
fendy
feneration
fenestella
fenestra
fenestra cochleae
fenestra nov-ovalis
fenestra of the cochlea
fenestra of the vestibule
fenestra ovalis
fenestra rotunda
fenestra vestibuli
fenestrae (current term)
fenestrals
fenestrane
fenestranes
fenestras
fenestrate
fenestrated
fenestrated capillary
fenestrated membrane
fenestrated sheath
fenestration
fenestration operation
fenestrations
fenestrule

Literary usage of Fenestrae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"... circular lacunae; the remaining surface of the lorica perforated by innumerable irregularly disposed fenestrae of rounded form and variable size, ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1875)
"By cutting away the posterior segment of the membrana tympani and turning it forward over the hammer, a more perfect view of the fenestrae of the labyrinth ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"These cavities are large and, like the infratemporal fenestrae, face almost directly upward. The space between them is of moderate breadth. ..."

4. Prophetae Majores: in dialecto linguae Aegyptiacae Memphitica seu Coptica by Henry Tattam (1852)
"... cubitorum in longitudinem, et viginti quinqué cubitorum in latitudinem. 37. Et postes ejus ducentes in atrium exterius ; et fenestrae ante postes ejus, ..."

5. A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East by Thomas Horsfield, Frederic Moore (1859)
"This band is of a dark blackish-brown, passing into a rich chestnut-brown above the fenestrae of the upper wings and on their posterior margin; ..."

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