Word: lumen
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...hole through the girl's ribs and stuck an aspirating needle into the "blister." No fluid oozed through the needle's lumen. The professor poked again. Unexpectedly bright red blood spurted from the hollow needle. The "blister" was really an aneurism, a bulging of the girl's weak-walled heart, and he had ruptured the heart. Her blood was flooding through the rent...
...cooked pork. When eaten, the cysts are destroyed by the digestive juices, and in two or three days the adult worm develops; the male impregnates the female and then dies. In from six to ten days, the embryos are discharged from the uterus of the female worm into the lumen [passageway] of the intestine or into the lymphatics of the intestinal wall. These embryos wander with lymph or blood to the various parts of the body, the majority reaching the striated [banded] muscle and there developing into encysted larvae...