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transfenestration en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans- + fenestration.

Meanings

1. (countable, rare, uncountable) The act of smashing through a window.
   • A look into the world of Frenesi, for example, must be refracted through her daughter Prairie’s quest for her mother, and with her ex-husband’s Zoyd’s broken life, not to mention his transfenestrations. 1998, Daniel Ray White, “Ecopoetics: Literary Ecology and Postmodernity”, in Postmodern Ecology: Communication, Evolution, and Play, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, section “Literary Ecology in Mile Zero and Vineland”, page 207:
   • Indeed she boycotts the construction of a setting, and when she announces that “she would go out of a window and the hotel would go into pieces” (45), she threatens to destroy the house of fiction, the very framework of the window of imagination. The suggestion of smashed glass, of a transfenestration that would let a hotel burst into pieces, plays on the topos of the destroyed mirror-image. 2000, Claudia Franken, Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker (Hallenser Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik; 7), Münster: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, page 340:
   • I can see the thirst for new experiences, but a man’s better off sticking to a specialty, your own basically being transfenestration. 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Boston; Toronto; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 7:
   • “But the bull could smash my shop window!” “This is true; maybe we should stand a little further back…over here, perhaps…and how have you been, ‘Me Mamosa?” Aside from being concerned about potential risks of bovine transfenestration, she seemed her usual jovial self, checking on her business, which was nearly empty as usual, which made it rather crowded relative to most. 2014, Manko Eponymous, Trashed Forsaken (How To Lose Lesotho), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 192:
   • > >I'll be right down. (crashes through window) / > / > hey, you just put him out of work / what about transfenestration, let's get some of that going on 1999 November 10, The Queen of Cans and Jars, “All I have is weight, all I need is rope”, in alt.edgar (Usenet):
2. (countable, rare, uncountable) A pathway through a fenestration.
   • […]rhythmia was due to exposure to transfenestration blood flow. 2008, Shunji Uchita, Yorikazu Harada, Satoshi Yasukochi, Gengi Satomi, “Successfully completed total cavopulmonary connection with a right-sided maze procedure after a modified Starnes’ operation in a neonate with Ebstein’s anomaly”, in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, volume 56, pages 233–235:
   • However, access to the heart cavity via a venous route becomes rather difficult after TCPC; thus, either transaortic retrograde access or a transfenestration route created during surgery is usually attempted. 2021, “JCS/JHRS 2019 Guideline on Non-Pharmacotherapy of Cardiac Arrhythmias”, in Circulation Journal, volume 85, number 7, The Japanese Circulation Society, pages 1104–1244:
   • • Assessment of the Fontan pathway: ◦ Presence of fenestration and transfenestration mean gradient 2022, Marc Gewillig, Luc L. Mertens, “Echocardiographic Assessment of Functional Single Ventricles after the Fontan Operation”, in Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., page 621:
   • The 22F profile delivery system incorporates preloaded guide sheaths transfenestration for simplified renal artery cannulation and covered renal stent delivery.[…]Cannulation of the renal arteries occurs at this time using physician-selected angiographic catheters and guidewires introduced through the transfenestration guide sheaths.[…]The ability to perform renal cannulation while the Ventana stent graft remains fully constrained, in addition to incorporated preloaded transfenestration guiding sheaths, are significant differentiating design features that simplify renal cannulation. 2013 July, William J. Quiñones-Baldrich, Andrew Holden, Renato Mertens, Matt M. Thompson, Alan P. Sawchuk, Jean-Pierre Becquemin, Matthew Eagleton, Daniel G. Clair, “Prospective, multicenter experience with the Ventana Fenestrated System for juxtarenal and pararenal aortic aneurysm endovascular repair”, in Journal of Vascular Surgery:
   • The megakaryocyte nuclei rarely make the transfenestration journey into the sinusoids and thence the blood. 1998, Colin A. Sieff, David G. Nathan, Steven C. Clark, “The Anatomy and Physiology of Hematopoiesis”, in David G[ordon] Nathan, Stuart H[olland] Orkin, Nathan and Oski’s Hematology of Infancy and Childhood, 5th edition, volume 1, W.B. Saunders Company, →ISBN, page 174:

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