fenestra-, fenestr-

The act of surreptitiously or secretly entering through a window: After Sam and his family were visiting friends, they got home later in the evening, and discovered that someone had made an adfenistration into their home and stole some jewelry and cash.

Suicide by jumping out of a window: In the newspaper, Mr. Hathaway read about a case of autocide-defenestration about a young man who intentionally jumped out of awindoe in the 5th floor of a condo building.

The throwing of oneself out of a window or when someone jumps out of a window, often ending lethally: In the magazine article, Mrs. Jones read about a young woman who committed autodefenestration evidently because her husband and children had been recently killed in a car accident.

Defective development of the calvaria (dome, roof) of the fetal, or unborn child's skull, with areas in which no bone forms: Craniofenestria is a congenital bone diefect of the skull and where bones have not developed.

1. To throw something out of a window: Before toilets were invented and widely used, people in the past defenestrated their human wastes out on the streets in cities and were even defenestrating such excreta on people who were walking by the buildings below.
2. Etymology: The verb form was actually derived from the noun defenestration, and is composed of de-, "from, of" + fenestra "window". Fenestra is used in French fenêtre and in German Fenster.

Although the following image represents a noun, it also illustrates the meaning of this verb.

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1. A reference to something that is thrown out of a window: Tom recovered his defenestrated notebook that landed outside in the flowerbed when his brother had an angry fit.
2. In computer language, indicating the removal of a Windows's program from a computer: Sharon thanked her brother for the defenestrated Microsoft windows's program he took off the day before.

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One of the two major types of narrow tubes found in the intestinal mucosa, renal glomeruli, pancreas, endocrine glands, and other tissues: The denestrated capillaries are characterized by circular fenestrae or pores that penetrate the endothelium and may be closed by a very thin diaphragm.

1. In anatomy and zoology, a small opening or perforation; a window: In her medical book, Marie read that a fenestra could be in a bone, especially between the middle and inner ear.
2. A transparent spot in an otherwise opaque surface: An fenestra can be present in the wings of certain butterflies and moths.
3. Any opening resembling a window: Ssome plaster casts, surgical drapes, or surgical instruments.can have fenestrae.
4. In architecture, a window-like opening: While drawing the plans of a building, Lisa made sure that there were many fenestrae in the walls to let in as much light as possible.

The opening into the duodenum made by the common bile duct and the pancreatic duct.

A small, rounded, recessed opening in the medial wall of the tympanic cavity: The fenestra cochlea is located behind and below the fenestra vestibuli, under cover of the projecting edge of the promontory and communicating with scala tympani of the cochlea from which it is separated by the secondary tympanic membrane.

The two window-like, membrane-covered openings between the middle and the internal ear: Janet's ear was aching quite a bit, and after her condition was examined, her otorhinolaryngologist said that ithe disorder was located near the fenestra ovalis and could be treated.

A membrane-covered opening between the middle and inner ears in amphibians and mammals through which energy is sent after traveling in the membranous labyrinth: The fenestra rotunda is a small opening, especially either of two window-like apertures in the medial wall of the middle ear.

1. A reference to a window with translucent material instead of glass.
2. Of or like a window that is perforated with translucent spots.

In medicine, to create one or more openings in a tissue: Dr. Smart showed his students how to fenestrate the soft substances they were working on.