LOBE

n. Lob. Gr., Ao/3os. Lat., lobus. Fr., I. Ger., Lappen. It., Sp., lobo. A projecting and somewhat rounded portion of a part or organ; in the brain, either (a) a rounded elevation (e. a., one of the corpora quadrigemina) or (b) a group of cerebellar folia (e: g., the semilunar L), or (c) a group of cerebral gyri more or le distinctly demark a ted by deep fi ures and corresponding approximately to the cranial bones (e. g.. the occipital I.); in botany, a subdivision of an organ, especially a rounded projection from the margin of a leaf, or other flattened organ. [B, 1, 121, 123, 291 (a, 35); J; a, 17.] Amygdaloid 1's. See AMYGDALAE cerebelli and cf. Amygdaloid TUBERCLE. Annular 1. of the cerebrum. Ger., ring form i ger Lappen. See OPERCULUM. Anonymous 1. of the liver. Lat., lobus (seu lobulus) hepatic us (seu hepatis) anonym us. Fr., 7. anonyme dufoie. See, Quadrate I. Anterior crescentic 1. of the cerebellum. Lat., lobus cerebelli semilunar is (seu lunatus) anterior, lobus falciform is anterior (seu major}, folium supralunare (cerebelli). Fr., I. semilunaire anterieur. O, no; O2, not; O3, whole; Th, thin; Th2, the; U, like oo in too; 277 [s. 659]