FENESTRA

fenestra: translation

n.; pl. -trae [L. fenestra, window]

1. A small opening; a window.

2. An opening through a shell; a foramen.

3. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta)

a. Transparent spots or marks on the wings. b. In Orthoptera, a small membranous area at the base of an antennae of a cockroach. c. In Isoptera, a cavity on the head; a fontanel.d. The membranous base of the ommatidia at the junction with the optic nerve of a compound eye; a transparent ocellate spot in an eye. e. In male Odonata, the genital opening on the ventral surface of abdominal segment 11; see fontanelle.

4. (BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata)

In Cheilostomata, an open space or mesh in reticulate zoaria.

5. (NEMATA)

a. In Secernentea, the thin membranous area surrounding or on either side of the vulva of a cyst forming nematode (Heterodera spp.). b. In some marine Adenophorea, the openings in subcuticular helmets through which sensory nerves pass; fenestrate adj., fenestration n.

1) окно (lucem admittere fenestris O; ex fenestris prospectare L; per fenestram projicere Sen)

2)

а) отверстие

б) бойница, амбразура, люк (ad tormenta mittenda Cs)

1. анат. окно, отверстие

2. энт.

1) прозрачное пятно (на крыле)

2) ямка, прикрытая мембраной

fenestra: translation

aperture, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, disclosure, fistula, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gat, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, lacuna, laying open, leak, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, passageway, pore, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, yawn

fenestra: translation

Type of valve sculpture: one in a series openings either in ridge (carina) or wall (murus) of reticulate pattern [Stachowitsch, 1992].

1) анат. окно, отверстие

2) энт. прозрачное пятно (на крыле)

fenestra: translation