Definition of Lobus

1. a small lobe [n LOBI]

Medical Definition of Lobus

1. Synonym: lobe. Origin: LL. Fr. G. Lobos (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobus

lobulus corticalis renalis
lobulus culminis
lobulus cuneiformis
lobulus folii
lobulus fusiformis
lobulus gracilis
lobulus hepatis
lobulus paracentralis
lobulus parietalis inferior
lobulus parietalis superior
lobulus quadrangularis
lobulus quadratus
lobulus semilunaris inferior
lobulus semilunaris superior
lobulus simplex
lobus (current term)
lobus anterior hypophyseos
lobus appendicularis
lobus azygos
lobus caudatus
lobus dexter
lobus falciformis
lobus frontalis cerebri
lobus glandularis hypophyseos
lobus hepatis dexter
lobus hepatis sinister
lobus inferior pulmonis
lobus linguiformis
lobus medius pulmonis dextri

Literary usage of Lobus

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

1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"Of these four parts the two anterior, about equal in size, form what has been termed the slender lobe (lobus gracilis) ; the two posterior, ..."

2. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"In each hemisphere three lobes are distinguished : lobus superior, lobus posterior and ... A. lobus Superior. The lobus superior is bounded in front by the ..."

3. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1867)
"... behind, by the transverse fissure ; on the right, by the fissure for the gall-bladder ; and, on the left, by the umbilical fissure. The lobus ..."

4. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"... sen lobus CAUDA'TUS, canil -tun. This is mrn-ly the root or one of the ang'^s of the ... seu lobus ..."

5. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"lobus PYRIFORMIS. Hippocampal region. The changes undergone by the lobus pyriformis, in its passage from ... As with the lobus pyriformis, so with the gyrus ..."

6. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1899)
"Others positively reach the septum pellucidum and go by way of the fornix to Ammon's horn. The majority FIG. 484.—Bulling ct lobus olfactorius of a ..."

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