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- noun Plural form of
lobe .
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Examples
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The liver has two main lobes, both of which are made up of thousands of lobules.
About the Liver 2010
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The liver has two main lobes, both of which are made up of thousands of lobules.
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Their sense of taste and their frontal brain lobes were removed.
365 tomorrows » Free Range Humans : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Their sense of taste and their frontal brain lobes were removed.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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The G&M quotes Milner as saying, The shape of the brain lobes and the pattern of the brain lobes compares very closely to what we see in modern flying birds "and from that she inferred the brain was" well-equipped for flying ".
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Each breast contains seven to ten milk-producing units called lobes.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Each breast contains seven to ten milk-producing units called lobes.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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If affects two of the lobes, the frontal lobes, which is what's behind your forehead.
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Each rounded lobe of the vegetable leaf, too, is a thick and now loitering drop, larger or smaller; the lobes are the fingers of the leaf; and as many lobes as it has, in so many directions it tends to flow, and more heat or other genial influences would have caused it to flow yet farther.
Walden 2004
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The right lung is divided into three smaller lungs, called lobes, the left into but two.
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