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Example sentences for "lumen"

Lexicographically close words:
lumberman; lumbermen; lumbers; lumberyard; lume; lumiere; lumina; luminance; luminaries; luminary
  1. Lumen has no right to say that the probability of the cause (his cause, our effect) should be represented necessarily by a continuous function.

  2. Lumen would not have the same reasons for such a conclusion.

  3. This is the case where we should not attribute the phenomenon to chance and where on the contrary Lumen would attribute it to chance.

  4. In many cases its lumen is wholly or partly obliterated, though this is probably due to disease (see R.

  5. At the end of each twig is a membrane pierced by pores, and a number of cilia depend into the lumen of the tube; these cilia maintain a constant motion.

  6. The large swollen cells are granular, and very frequently there is a granular mass in the lumen of the tubule.

  7. In some cases the cells are so much swollen that the lumen of the tubule is represented merely by a 'star-shaped' radiating chink.

  8. Blatta orientalis, Germany (Avrech, 1931): Found in cells lining the lumen of midgut and caeca.

  9. This organism lives in the lumen of the malpighian tubules of cockroaches.

  10. These belong to the year 1651, as also does Lumen de Lumine; "The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity R.

  11. A lambert is "the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface radiating or reflecting one lumen per square cm.

  12. The surface then receives one lumen per square metre.

  13. And, as he crossed himself before sleeping, the only prayer he breathed was: 'Infunde lumen cordi meo.

  14. The lumen may, in this embryo, be traced for only a few sections, caudad to which the thyroid is seen as a small, solid mass of cells unattached to the oral groove.

  15. Owing to its thin walls and small lumen the allantois was traced only a short distance into the umbilical stalk.

  16. Except in the enlarged region near the pylorus the lumen of the intestine is almost obliterated by the folding of its thick walls, so that little or nothing can be told of its lining with the naked eye.

  17. The oesophagus, oe, is here a solid, crescentic mass of cells, the lumen being completely obliterated.

  18. Its lumen is very large in its caudal region, figure 5I, pag, and tapers gradually cephalad until it disappears.

  19. Its walls are thick, and its lumen is almost obliterated by the longitudinal folds of the mucosa, mentioned above.

  20. Then an ovum at menstruation breaks out through the surface of the ovary, and is taken by the fimbriae of the Fallopian tube into the lumen of this tube.

  21. Each vas is about two feet in length, and it has a diameter of one-tenth of an inch throughout the greater part of its length, but its lumen is extremely narrow.

  22. When the ends of a cut vas are released from cicatricial tissue, these ends may be sutured together; but as the lumen of the vas is extremely small, there is sometimes obliteration by occlusion at the juncture.

  23. The perseverance of natural forces in restoring the lumen of the vas--and the success achieved over such obstacles as silk ligatures--is surprising until one reflects upon the natural factors favoring such restoration.

  24. The gynecologists have learned that ligatures around the Fallopian tubes are apt to cut through, whereupon the tubal lumen is restored, though pressure must be less than in the vas.

  25. Among the compositions prior to Palestrina, and still sung in the papal chapel, Baini reckons the Magnificats of Carpentrasso and Morales, as well as the Te Deum and Lumen ad revelutionem gentium of Costanzo Festa.

  26. Clear viscous fluid exudes from it, and, when the fistula is complete and the lumen sufficiently wide, particles of food may escape.

  27. Impaction of wax causes deafness only when the lumen of the auditory canal becomes completely occluded by the plug.

  28. A filiform, tortuous shadow of the bismuth may be continued downwards and show up the lumen of the stricture.

  29. Its lumen is from an early stage lined with cells which have lost their yolk, and it is in wide communication with the exterior from the first.

  30. With cessation of its function its cells became vacuolated, as in these other cases, and its lumen became filled with notochordal tissue.

  31. A lumen then begins to appear in this solid rod at the posterior end, which steadily advances mouthwards until it opens into the oral chamber and thus forms an open tube connecting the mouth with the gut.

  32. The branchial unit is ordinarily described as a gill-pouch, which possesses two openings or slits, an internal one into the lumen of the alimentary canal, and an external one into the surrounding medium.

  33. During the whole of their course on the wall of the funnel-shaped duct they retain the character of grooves, and are therefore open to the lumen of the duct.

  34. This free termination of the cells of the gland in the lumen of the chamber constitutes the whole method for the secretion of the gland; there is no duct, no alveolus, nothing but this free termination of the cells.

  35. It consists of a simple dilated anterior end leading into a straight tube, the lumen of which is much larger than that of the ultimate spinal canal, and terminates by way of the neurenteric canal in the anus.

  36. The lumen of the stalk of the primary optic vesicle is obliterated quite early by a proliferation of its lining epithelium.

  37. One of the anthems for Vespers at Christmas: Exortum est in tenebris lumen rectis corde.

  38. I may call it Lumen crepusculum, the Aurora of the Moone, or such a kinde of blushing light, that the Sunne causes when he is neere his rising, when he bestowes some small light upon the thicker vapours.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    candle; flux; intensity; light; lumen; lux; quantum