单词 | fenestration |
释义 | fenestrationn. 1. The arrangement of windows in a building. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > window > arrangement of interfenestration1823 fenestration1846 1846 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 9 293 The fenestration of Soane's building was praiseworthy. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 159 I see no difference of principle in the fenestration of the Early French and the Early English Pointed styles. 2. Anatomy. a. The process of becoming perforated; the formation of small holes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] holing1398 fenestration1870 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > opening or hole > formation of small holes fenestration1870 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 150 Reduced by extreme fenestration to mere series of filaments. b. The condition of being fenestrated or perforated. ΚΠ 1881 St. G. Mivart 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. Surgery. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > incision > [noun] > opening up > openings made surgically issuea1450 fistula1728 counter-opening1739 fenestration1935 stoma1937 fenestra1941 1935 R. S. Stevenson Rec. Adv. in Laryngol. & Otol. v. 80 (caption) Fenestration of thyroid cartilage: Ledoux's method. 1937 Bull. N.Y. Acad. Med. 13 675 (heading) Operations based on fenestration of the labyrinth. 1949 G. 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. 1958 F. B. Korkis Rec. Adv. in 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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