Sentence example with the word 'lumen'

lumen

bougie decimale, candle lumen, candle-foot, candle-meter, exposure meter, foot-candle, international candle, light, light quantum, lumen-hour, luminous flux, luminous power, photon, unit of flux

Definition n. a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions

Last update: June 23, 2015


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Some of the blood vessels have collapsed post mortem and the gut lumen is often distended with gas.   [noun]

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A benchtop model was constructed reproducing the nitrite chemistry occurring within the lumen of the upper gastrointestinal tract where saliva encounters acidic gastric juice.   [noun]

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Externally, the nephridium opens by a straight part of the tube, which is often very wide, and here the intracellular lumen becomes intercellular.   [Please select]

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The medullary rays assume a direction more or less parallel to the lumen of the cells on which they border; the latter curve to the right or left to make room for the ray and then close again beyond it.   [Please select]

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Morus fitted the _Clamor_ with a preface, in which Milton was further reviled, and styled a "monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademtum."   [Please select]

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Lumen: the cavity of an organ: the inner surface of a tube: the hollow portion of a gland or vesicular structure.   [Please select]

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Fangs measured from the tip of the notch of the basal lumen to the end of the fang vary from about 1.   [Please select]

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Enlarged postpharyngeal lymphatic glands are not rare in tuberculosis, and by pressing upon the wall of the pharynx and restricting the lumen of this organ they cause difficulty in both breathing and swallowing.   [Please select]

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