Lobe Meaning
/ləʊb/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAny projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
nounA clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
Sentence Examples
My left ear lobe is swollen.
The left frontal lobe plays a role in controlling mood and emotion.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The MRI revealed a small lesion in the patient's temporal ____ of the brain.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The temporal ____ is a part of the human brain that is primarily involved in processing auditory info.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors."
— 1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 19, in Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, →OCLC:
"The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure."
— 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The MRI revealed a small lesion in the patient's temporal ____ of the brain.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The temporal ____ is a part of the human brain that is primarily involved in processing auditory info.