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Definition of "transluminal" []

  • Passing or occurring across a lumen, as of a blood vessel. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "transluminal" in a sentence
  • "A literal army of Lanterns is on their way through transluminal space, but the situation on Mogo just got critical…"
  • "In transluminal space, the physical protostellar matter collecting in the wasteland of the kuub was represented by both a gravity dimple and a quantum-level spore, or nugget, which interacted with the translateral quantum-frame state of a ship much as a physical rock would interact–that is, smash into–the physical hull of a ship in realspace."
  • "Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA): While CABG , commonly known as a bypass, has more immediate sexual effects than PTCA, known as angioplasty, the sexual effects of the procedures even out within fifteen months of surgery."