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fenestration: a standalone construct

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Surgery and medicine

a deliberately made opening cut into bone, membrane, or vessel to restore a passage or relieve pressure.

In surgery and anatomy this word names a deliberately made opening, and the operation that makes it, cut into a bone, membrane, or vessel to restore a passage or relieve pressure. The medical meaning is recorded from about 1870, and Lempert's 1938 Improvement of hearing in cases of otosclerosis: A new, one-stage surgical technic established the classic fenestration operation, cutting a fresh window into the bony labyrinth of the ear so that sound could reach the inner ear after the natural window had become fixed. His single-stage method, refining multi-stage attempts of the preceding two decades, was widely taught before stapes surgery later replaced it. The referent is a surgical opening in living tissue, not a pattern of windows in a wall and not a hole a plant grows in its own leaf.[1]

Unit
One surgically created opening in bone, membrane, or vessel
Recovery means
The opening is intended to stay patent, and healing is judged by whether it remains open and functional
Measured by
Assessed by whether the opening stays open and by the functional result, such as hearing gain after the ear operation

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References

  1. Lempert, J. (1938). Improvement of hearing in cases of otosclerosis: A new, one-stage surgical technic. Archives of Otolaryngology, 28(1), 42–97. https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1938.00650040049006

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