Lumen

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In biology, a lumen (pl.: lumina) is the inside space of a tubular structure, such as an artery or intestine. It comes from Latin lumen 'an opening'.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Lumen (anatomy)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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