The word fenestration finds its root in the Latin word for window, fenestra.
- Architecture
- Products that fill openings in a building envelope, such as windows, doors, skylights, curtain walls, etc. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation A building envelope is the separation between the interior and the exterior environments of a Building. GlassWindowjpg|thumb|right|190px|A stained glass panel depicting Biblical scenes at a historic church in Scotland]] A window is an opening A door is a panel or barrier usually hinged or sliding that is used to cover an opening in a Wall or partition going into a building or space , designed to permit the passage of air, light, vehicles, or people.
- With reference to people, the word defenestration refers to being thrown from a window. Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a Window.
- Medicine
- An opening, occurring naturally or created surgically, as through a membrane. Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental MembraneA biological membrane or biomembrane is an enclosing or separating Amphipathic layer that acts as a barrier within or around a cell.
- A surgical procedure by which an opening is created between the inner ear and tympanum to replace fenestrae. The inner Ear is the bony labyrinth, a system of passages comprising two main functional parts the organ of hearing or Cochlea The tympanic membrane (also tympanum or myrinx is a thin membrane that separates the External ear from the Middle ear.
- Anatomic fenestrations, in sinusoid vessels
- Podcasting
- The MyMac podcast at MyMac.com contains a regular segment by David Cohen entitled Fenestration, which discusses aspects of using Apple Macintosh computers in a world dominated by PCs running Microsoft Windows. A sinusoid is a small Blood vessel similar to a Capillary but with a Discontinuous Endothelium. A podcast is a series of audio or Video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated Download
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fenestration
-noun
- (architecture) The arrangement of windows etc in a building.
- (surgery) An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing.
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