lobe
pronunciation
How to pronounce lobe in British English:
UK [ləʊb]
How to pronounce lobe in American English:
US [loʊb]
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- Noun:
- (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part
- (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided
- the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern
- a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure
Word Origin
- lobe
- lobe: [16] Greek lobós denoted ‘something round’, such as the circular part of the ear or the liver, or a round seed pod. It came from a prehistoric *logwós, a close relative of which produced Latin legūmen ‘seed pod’ (source of English legume [17]). Lobós was borrowed into late Latin as lobus, and from there made its way into English.=> legume
- lobe (n.)
- early 15c., "a lobe of the liver or lungs," from Middle French lobe and directly from Medieval Latin lobus, from Late Latin lobus "hull, husk, pod," from Greek lobos "lobe of the ear, vegetable pod," perhaps related to Greek leberis "husk of fruits," from PIE *logwos. Extended 1670s to divisions of the brain.
Example
- 1. This challenges long-standing beliefs that thoughts about the future develop exclusively in the frontal lobe .
- 2. They focused on the hippocampus - an elongated , banana-shaped structure beneath the brain 's temporal lobe .
- 3. These cancers appear in the frontal lobe - a knuckle-shaped area immediately behind the forehead and the eye .
- 4. This option is only available to those cases where the tumor is confined to either the right or left lobe , or in milder cases , only one of its eight so called couinaud segments .
- 5. It is most often associated with temporal lobe epilepsy , a disorder that may also lead to hyper-religious feelings and a sense that even the most trivial events are filled with heightened meaning and cosmic importance .