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fenestration|fɛnɪˈstreɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. fenestrāre: see fenestrate v.]
1. The arrangement of windows in a building.
1846Civ. Eng. & Archit. Jrnl. IX. 293 The fenestration of Soane's building was praiseworthy. 1879Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 159, I see no difference of principle in the fenestration of the Early French and the Early English Pointed styles.
2. Anat.
a. The process of becoming perforated; the formation of small holes.
b. The condition of being fenestrated or perforated.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 150 Reduced by extreme fenestration to mere series of filaments. 1881Mivart Cat 329 Fenestration—denoting that a solid structure has dissolved itself at one spot or more, so as to give rise to an aperture perforating it.
3. Surg. An opening made surgically to provide a passage through an anatomical structure; esp. the operation of cutting such an opening into the labyrinth of the ear to restore hearing in cases of otosclerosis.
1935R. S. Stevenson Rec. Adv. Laryngol. & Otol. v. 80 (caption) Fenestration of thyroid cartilage: Ledoux's method. 1937Bull. N.Y. Acad. Med. XIII. 675 (heading) Operations based on fenestration of the labyrinth. 1949G. M. Coates in F. Christopher Textbk. Surg. (ed. 5) xviii. 771 The theoretical basis of the fenestration operation is that by producing a new window into the internal ear..the impeded fenestra ovale is by-passed and sound impulses are again projected to the fluids of the internal ear and the cochlea. 1958F. B. Korkis Rec. Adv. Oto-Laryngol. (ed. 3) iv. 59 The operation of fenestration itself is being challenged..on account of the introduction of a less radical procedure—mobilization of the stapes. |