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The phrase "a lumen" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in scientific contexts, particularly in fields like physics and biology, to refer to a unit of measurement for luminous flux.
Example: "The light bulb emits a brightness of 800 lumens, which is equivalent to about 60 watts of incandescent light."
Alternatives: "one lumen" or "a unit of luminous flux".
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Cell clusters grew large, but never developed a lumen (Supplementary information, Fig. S13b).
One experiment involved encouraging gut cells to form a lumen, or hollow cyst.
A lumen, simply put, is the amount of light one candle can shine on a one-foot-square section of a surface.
This results in a lumen through which food passes when propelled adequately by the tongue and related musculature.
First, a lumen absent in the ground state structure is transiently opened by chloride passage.
The problem geometry was simplified to a 2D axisymmetric model consisting of a lumen, vein wall and perivenous tissue.
The right coronary artery has a lumen diameter of about 2.5 millimetres or more.
These results demonstrate for the first time that hydrophobic weakly basic LDs induce a lumen pH-dependent membrane fluidization of acidic organelles.
Endothelial cells form microcapillary-like structures containing a lumen and these were intertwined between the osteoblast cells and the biomaterial.
After five days of mitosis and CAMo, polarized breast cells have assembled into an acinar sphere with a lumen in the center (inset).
These branches arise by extension of long cytoplasmic processes from terminal tracheal cells towards oxygen-starved tissues, followed by formation of a lumen within the processes.
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