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A fenestra (fenestration; pl.: fenestrae or fenestrations) is any small opening or pore, commonly used as a term in the biological sciences. [1] It is the Latin word for "window", and is used in various fields to describe a pore in an anatomical structure.
Fenestration or fenestrate may refer to: Fenestration (architecture) , relating to openings in a building Fenestra , in anatomy, medicine, and biology, any small opening in an anatomical structure
Matthäus Merian's impression of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague. Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā [1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. [2]
This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology.
The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of several members of the city council by a crowd of Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419. [1]Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall on Charles Square.
The internal compartments of a building, each divided from the other by subtle means such as the boundaries implied by divisions marked in the side walls (columns, pilasters, etc.) or the ceiling (beams, etc.). Also, the external divisions of a building by fenestration (windows). Bay window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame [1] in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. [2]
An anapsid is an amniote whose skull lacks one or more skull openings (fenestra, or fossae) near the temples. [1] Traditionally, the Anapsida are considered the most primitive subclass of amniotes, the ancestral stock from which Synapsida and Diapsida evolved, making anapsids paraphyletic.