Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small lobe.
- noun A section or subdivision of a lobe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little lobe; especially, one of the lesser divisions of the surface of the brain; a gyrus or convolution of the cerebrum, or a cluster of such gyri, of which there are several in each lobe, separated from one another by those lesser sulci or fissures which are called intralobular.
- noun A terminal bronchus, with the air-cells, vessels, and nerves related to it.
- noun In botany, same as
disculus
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
- noun (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
lobe ; asubdivision of a lobe. - noun botany In
liverworts withbilobed leaves, the smaller of the twolobes , sometimes modified to form asac .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe
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Examples
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The lobule is the smallest division of the lung and is formed by capillary bronchial tubes, air cells and blood-vessels.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Useful signals were also recorded from another region called the inferior parietal lobule, which is known to help guide limb movement.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Across the intertragical notch is the prominence known as the antitragus, part of the stiff cartilaginous shelf from which hangs the fleshy auricular lobule earlobe.
Archive 2009-06-01 James Gurney 2009
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There's the 10% with the tubercle, and then some other percentage with a completely attached auricular lobule earlobe.
The Anatomy of the Ear James Gurney 2009
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I'm half Japanese and I have completely attached auricular lobule!
The Anatomy of the Ear James Gurney 2009
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Across the intertragical notch is the prominence known as the antitragus, part of the stiff cartilaginous shelf from which hangs the fleshy auricular lobule earlobe.
The Anatomy of the Ear James Gurney 2009
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ILC starts in the milk-producing lobule and invades the surrounding breast tissue.
The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008
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ILC starts in the milk-producing lobule and invades the surrounding breast tissue.
The 10 Best Questions Dede Bonner 2008
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Atypical cells can also grow in a lobule, the part of the breast that produces milk.
The Call-Back 2008
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Cheese-in-a-burger is a burger in which a vesicle or lobule has been created, and filled with some sort of pus-like substance.
August 14th, 2005 amuchmoreexotic 2005
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