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What (who) is lobe - definition
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Lobes; Lobe (disambiguation)
lobe
(lobes)
1.
The lobe of your ear is the soft, fleshy part at the bottom.
= earlobe
N-COUNT
2.
A lobe is a rounded part of something, for example one of the sections of your brain or lungs, or one of the rounded sections along the edges of some leaves.
...damage to the temporal lobe of the brain.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
Lobe
·noun A rounded projection or division of a leaf.
II. Lobe ·noun The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
III. Lobe ·noun Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
IV. Lobe ·noun A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.
V. Lobe ·noun A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, ·etc. ·see ·Illust. of Brain.
lobe
¦ noun
1. a hanging or projecting part, such as the soft part at the base of the outer ear.
2. a major division of an organ such as the brain, typically rounded in form.
Derivatives
lobed adjective
lobeless adjective
Origin
ME: via late L. from Gk lobos 'lobe, pod'.
Examples of use of lobe
1. The left lobe accounts for one third of the liver.
2. He was to have surgery in early January to remove the upper left lobe of his lung because of a fungal infection, but surgeons found two large tumors and left the lobe intact.
3. Female officers may wear a small pair of stud earrings in the ear lobe only and these earrings may not be of the drop style or anywhere on the ear apart from the lobe.
4. Today‘s coelacanth is such a "lobe–finned fish," a holdover from this early period.
5. "They chose the left lobe because Liza is so small," says Ghassan.