fenestrated, ppl. a.
(fɪˈnɛstreɪtɪd)
[f. L. fenestrāt-us (see prec.) + -ed1.]
1. Arch. Furnished with windows.
| 1849 Weale Dict. Terms 183/2 Astylar and fenestrated ought..to be merely convertible terms; but as they are not [etc.]. In mod. Dicts. |
2. a. In scientific use: Pierced with a hole or with holes; perforated. ‘fenestrated membrane (Anat.): that form of the elastic tissue of the middle or contractile coat of the arteries, in which it presents a homogeneous membrane the meshes of which appear as simple perforations’ (Hoblyn, 1868).
| 1849–52 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1370/1 Fenestrated membrane. 1865 Gosse Land & Sea 156 The shells [of Polycystina] are siliceous..Their walls beautifully fenestrated with large angular or circular perforations. 1878 Bell Gegenbauer's Comp. Anat. 476 The coracoid..is not unfrequently fenestrated. 1886 Guillemard Cruise of Marchesa II. 188 Fleshy, fenestrated leaves. |
b. Of a surgical instrument: having one or more fenestræ.
| 1881 Trans. Obstet. Soc. Lond. XXII. 46 These forceps, fenestrated longitudinally. 1915 A. MacLennan Surgical Materials vi. 210 (caption) Common type of clamp, with milled and fenestrated blades. 1963 Mitchell-Heggs & Drew Instruments of Surgery i. 55 Everett's pile forceps..have a pair of fenestrated, grooved blades to accommodate the tissue of the haemorrhoid or ‘pile’. |
3. Entom. Having transparent spots.
| 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 301 The male Locustæ have a fenestrated ocellus. |