Definition of Lobule

1. Noun. A small lobe or subdivision of a lobe.

Generic synonyms: Lobe
Derivative terms: Lobular

Definition of Lobule

1. n. A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

Definition of Lobule

1. Noun. A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. ¹

2. Noun. (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lobule

1. a small lobe [n -S] : LOBULAR, LOBULATE, LOBULOSE [adj]

Medical Definition of Lobule

1. A subdivision of the lobes of the breast. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobule

lobsterwomen
lobstery
lobstick
lobsticks
lobular
lobular carcinoma
lobular carcinoma in situ
lobular neoplasia
lobularity
lobularly
lobulate
lobulated
lobulation
lobulations
lobule (current term)
lobule of auricle
lobules
lobules of epididymis
lobules of mammary gland
lobules of testis
lobules of thymus
lobules of thyroid gland
lobulet
lobulette
lobulettes
lobuli
lobuli epididymidis
lobuli glandulae mammariae
lobuli glandulae thyroideae

Literary usage of Lobule

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"These three are in turn separated by the post-central fissure from the culmen, with the anterior crescentic lobule on each side. Posteriorly to these is the ..."

2. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"Thus each lobule is provided, at different parts of its circumference, with two, ... Each lobule at one part of its circumference rests directly, ..."

3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"Thus each lobule is provided, at different parts of its circumference, with two, ... Each lobule at one part of its circumference rests directly, ..."

4. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"Twigs of interlobular vein, passing to adjacent lobule». central or interior position, ... Each lobule may therefore be considered as a more or less ovoid, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Isolated Primary Tuberculosis of the lobule. —PAETZOLD (Ztschr. f. ... The author concludes that the isolated primary disease of the lobule in these cases ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the pig, camel, and polar bear, each lobule is circumscribed by a definite ... As a lobule of the liver is a liver in miniature, and as {he structure of ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"This " right lobe" is divisible into three secondary lobules, the " superior right lobule," tho " right kidney lobule," and tho ..."

8. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"The histology of the liver lobule, and the relationship of the portal vein, the hepatic artery, and the bile-duct to the lobule, must be obtained from the ..."

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