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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
Fenestration types. There are four types of amniote skull, classified by the number and location of their temporal fenestrae. Though historically important for ...
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]
The ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses of Gothic architecture concentrated the weight and thrust of the roof, freeing wall-space for larger clerestory fenestration. Generally, in Gothic masterpieces, the clerestory is divided into bays by the vaulting shafts that continue the same tall columns that form the arcade separating the aisles from ...
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
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 antorbital fenestra in relation to the other skull openings in the dinosaur Massospondylus.. An antorbital fenestra (plural: fenestrae) is an opening in the skull that is in front of the eye sockets.