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FENESTRATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fenestration mean?
• FENESTRATION (noun)
The noun FENESTRATION has 2 senses:
1. the arrangement of windows in a building
2. surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
Familiarity information: FENESTRATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The arrangement of windows in a building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fenestration" is a kind of...):
arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fenestration" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
Domain category:
otology (the branch of medicine concerned with the ear)
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