Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the lumen of any tubular organ or cell.

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  • adjective biology of or pertaining to the lumen
  • noun medicine A sedative.

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  • noun a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative

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Examples

  • The exception was HCC1500, which we classified as luminal while Neve et al. labeled it as basal B.

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  • Previously it was thought that a different type of immature cell, known as a luminal cell, lay at the root of prostate cancer.

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  • They include two estrogen receptor (ER) - positive subtypes, termed luminal A and B, and three ER-negative subtypes, termed basal-like, HER2-positive, and normal breast-like tumors.

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  • Their work led to a set of complex equations, materials formulation, and operational procedures that described the essential details of super luminal flight.

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  • Do they mean that the existing longitudinal wave can can propagate faster than light but the parts photons are limited to luminal speed?

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  • : Defects in one gene may be particularly responsible for luminal breast cancers, which account for 70% to 80% of breast-cancer cases, according to a study in Cancer Cell.

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  • As you probably know luminal is a mild drug used to quiet the nerves and to make people sleep.

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  • Phipps and her colleagues also showed that the late onset of menopause and the use of hormone treatment increase the chances of contracting luminal cancer.

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  • Nevertheless, These findings suggest that chronic psychological stress can be an initiating factor in intestinal inflammation by impairing mucosal defenses against luminal bacteria ....

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  • I, therefore, called Dr. Adams and the late Mrs. Remey told him she had taken a number of luminal tablets.

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