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Lobes
Introduction
In anatomy, a lobe is a clear anatomical division or extension[1][2] that can be determined without the use of a microscope (at the gross anatomy level.) This is in contrast to a lobule, which is a clear division only visible histologically. [3]
In practice, this division can be somewhat subjective. For example, it can be difficult to precisely distinguish between a interlobar duct and a interlobular duct.
Furthermore, the distinction is not universally accepted, and some sources simply consider a lobule to be a small lobe.[4]
Examples of lobes
Examples of lobes
- The four lobes of the human cortex
- the frontal lobe
- the parietal lobe
- the occipital lobe
- the temporal lobe
- The three lobes of the human cerebellum
- the flocculonodular lobe
- the anterior lobe
- the posterior lobe
- the earlobe
- lobes of the lung
- Right lung: superior, middle, inferior
- Left lung: superior and inferior
- the liver
- the kidney
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