Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small elevation near the middle of the inferior vermiform process of the cerebellum, between the biventral lobes.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a lobe.
- noun See
central lobe of the cerebellum , under lobe.
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+ “Auris pars pendula lobus dicitur, non omnibus ea pars, est auribus; non enim iis qui noctu sunt, sed qui interdiu, maxima ex parte.” —
Letter to a Friend 2007
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The superior semilunar lobules and the folium vermis form the lobus semilunaris.
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The left lobe (lobus hepatis sinister) is smaller and more flattened than the right.
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The right lobe (lobus hepatis dexter) is much larger than the left; the proportion between them being as six to one.
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The caudate lobe (lobus caudatus; Spigelian lobe) is situated upon the posterior surface of the right lobe of the liver, opposite the tenth and eleventh thoracic vertebræ.
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The Tuber Vermis (tuber valvulæ) and the Inferior Semilunar Lobule (lobulus semilunaris inferior; postero-superior lobule) collectively form the lobus tuberus (tuberæ lobe).
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This vein enters the abdomen at the umbilicus, and passes upward along the free margin of the falciform ligament of the liver to the under surface of that organ, where it gives off two or three branches, one of large size to the left lobe, and others to the lobus quadratus and lobus caudatus.
V. Angiology. 4c. Peculiarities in the Vascular System in the Fetus 1918
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The Pyramid and Biventral lobules constitute the lobus pyramidis.
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The culmen and the anterior parts of the quadrangular lobules form the lobus culminis; the clivus and the posterior parts, the lobus clivi.
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The flocculi, together with the posterior medullary velum and nodule, constitute the lobus noduli.
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