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Lumen  n.  (pl. L. lumina, E. lumens)  
1.
(Photom.)
(a)
A unit of illumination, being the amount of illumination of a unit area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere.
(b)
A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.
2.
(Biol.) An opening, space, or cavity, esp. a tubular cavity; a vacuole.






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... aneurisms; here it transforms to an adult without sexual organs, which passes to the walls of the cecum and encysts, giving rise to small cysts or abscesses; these cysts finally discharge to the interior of the cecum, setting the worms, now mature, at liberty in the lumen of ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture



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