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Definition: Luminal |
LuminalNoun1. A long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: LuminalSynonyms: phenobarbital (n), phenobarbitone (n), purple heart (n), sodium thiopental (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Luminal |
| Specialty definitions using "Luminal": Carcinoembryonic Antigen ♦ Duodenoscopy ♦ Kupffer Cells. (references) |
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 | Autopsy specimen of aorta has been opened lengthwise to reveal luminal surface studded with lesions of atherosclerosis. Credit: CDC. |  | A rickettsia is visible near luminal surface of hypertrophied capillary endothelial cellt (lower right). Transmission electron micrograph. Credit: CDC. |
 | Histopathology of cryptosporidiosis, gallbladder. Paraffin-embedded section shows numerous Cryptosporidium organisms at luminal surfaces of epithelial cells. Patient had AIDS. Parasite. Credit: CDC. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Luminal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Luminal" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 117 | 29,823 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
luminal | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Luminal" (pronounced luw"munul) |
| 5 | -m u n u l | abdominal, criminal, nominal, noncriminal, phenomenal, seminal, subliminal, terminal. |
| 4 | -u n u l | aberrational, aboriginal, additional, Arsenal, attitudinal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, coeducational, collisional, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, impersonal, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, marginal, medicinal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, personal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, sensational, sentinel, situational, superregional, supranational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, virginal, vocational. |
| 3 | -n u l | adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-m-n-u" | |
-1 letter: allium, alumin, alumni, lumina. | |
-2 letters: liman, linum, maill, miaul, mulla. | |
-3 letters: alum, amin, anil, lain, lima, limn, luna, mail, main, mall, maul, maun, mill, mina, mull, muni, nail, nill, null, ulan, ulna, unai. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, all, ami, amu, ani, ill, lam, lin, lum, man, mil, mun, nam, nil, nim. | |
-5 letters: ai, al, am. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-m-n-u" | |
+1 letter: mulligan. | |
+2 letters: mulligans, multilane. | |
+3 letters: animalcula, animalcule, bimanually, calmodulin, illuminant, illuminate, illuminati, multiplant, subliminal. | |
+4 letters: animalcules, animalculum, calmodulins, illuminable, illuminance, illuminants, illuminated, illuminates, illuminator, lactalbumin, manipulable, masculinely, matutinally, monolingual, multinomial, multivalent, municipally, neurilemmal, numerically, umbrellaing, unclimbable. | |
+5 letters: bilingualism, calumniously, ecumenically, illuminances, illuminating, illumination, illuminative, illuminators, intramurally, lactalbumins, malocclusion, meaningfully, monolinguals, mulligatawny, multichannel, multilingual, multinomials, multinuclear, multiplicand, multivalence, multivalents, mutationally, semiannually, slumpflation, subliminally, supraliminal, unfamiliarly, unicamerally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 75 6D 69 6E 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. ..- -- .. -. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01110101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L u m i n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0075 006D 0069 006E 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46877975806778 |
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