Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being lucent; brightness; luster; splendor.

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  • noun The quality of being lucent.

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  • noun The quality of being lucent.
  • noun medicine A pale area revealed in radiography, computed tomography, or similar examination technique.

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Examples

  • So now you get a 2 page report that says linear lucency in right 3rd rib, clinical correlation recommended, underinflated lung fields cannot exclude underlying interstitial disease and or masses.

    Coyote Blog » 2009 » September 2009

  • So now you get a 2 page report that says linear lucency in right 3rd rib, clinical correlation recommended, underinflated lung fields cannot exclude underlying interstitial disease and or masses.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » 23 Different Health Reform Plans, and Not One Mentions Torts 2009

  • Even with the thin lucency of the moon, it was hard to distinguish shapes, but after a moment she heard the groan again, deep and plaintive, and realized it was the lowing of a cow.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • The trees and the shrubs had a moist lucency to their foliage.

    The Guns of Avalon Zelazny, Roger 1972

  • He looked at her, filled with the wonder of her — the smooth lucency of her, like molten porcelain.

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

  • At the back of the high altar is a second altar with pillars of alabaster, and the custodian places his candle behind the central ones to illustrate their soft lucency, and affirms that they are from Solomon's own temple.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • These are the Septemberers (Septembriseurs); a name of some note and lucency, -- but lucency of the Nether-fire sort; very different from that of our Bastille Heroes, who shone, disputable by no Friend of

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Diffusion of contrast material into the central lucency is characteristic of early cerebritis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Martijn Weisfelt et al. 2010

  • A film taken 8 days later shows a large lucency replacing the opacity in the midlung zone.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows mlacombe 2009

  • If the pine woods be characterized by cathedral solemnity, and the cedars and tamaracks by certain horrifical gloom, and the popples by a silvery sunshine, and the berry-clearings by grateful heat and the homely manner of familiar birds, then the great hardwood must be known as the dwelling-place of transparent shadows, of cool green lucency, and the repository of immemorial cheerful forest tradition which the traveller can hear of, but which he is never permitted actually to know.

    The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

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