Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
lobulate .
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- adjective Made up of, or divided into,
lobules .
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Examples
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Both male and female gonads consist of more or less lobulated hollow sacs connected with the epidermis by short ducts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The glomerulus is a lobulated net-work of convoluted capillary bloodvessels, held together by scanty connective tissue.
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The bulbourethral glands are two small, rounded, and somewhat lobulated bodies, of a yellow color, about the size of peas, placed behind and lateral to the membranous portion of the urethra, between the two layers of the fascia of the urogenital diaphragm.
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On the nose and face the glands are of large size, distinctly lobulated, and often become much enlarged from the accumulation of pent-up secretion.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument 1918
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The vesiculæ seminales (Fig. 1152) are two lobulated membranous pouches, placed between the fundus of the bladder and the rectum, serving as reservoirs for the semen, and secreting a fluid to be added to the secretion of the testes.
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In some mammals, e. g., ox and bear, the kidney consists of a number of distinct lobules; this lobulated condition is characteristic of the kidney of the human fetus, and traces of it may persist in the adult.
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The secretory tubules of the kidney become arranged into pyramidal masses or lobules, and the lobulated condition of the kidneys exists for some time after birth, while traces of it may be found even in the adult.
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It is provided with numerous mucous glands, which are lobulated and open by minute orifices scattered irregularly in the larger ducts.
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The kidney of the ox and many other animals remains lobulated throughout life.
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The right and left lung buds grow out behind the ducts of Cuvier, and are at first symmetrical, but their ends soon become lobulated, three lobules appearing on the right, and two on the left; these subdivisions are the early indications of the corresponding lobes of the lungs (Figs. 948, 949).
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