The word fenestration finds its root in the Latin word for window, fenestra.

Architecture

• Products that fill openings in a building envelope, such as windows, doors, skylights, curtain walls, etc., designed to permit the passage of air, light, vehicles, or people.
• With reference to people, the word defenestration refers to being thrown from a window.

Medicine

• An opening, occurring naturally or created surgically, as through a membrane.
• A surgical procedure by which an opening is created between the inner ear and tympanum to replace fenestrae.
• Anatomic fenestrations, in sinusoid vessels

Podcasting

• The MyMac podcast at MyMac.com contains a regular segment by David Cohen entitled Fenestration, which discusses aspects of using Apple Macintosh computers in a world dominated by PCs running Microsoft Windows.

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