lobe
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- noun
- /loʊb/
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lóbulo
- Well, the gallbladder is a tiny little bag that lives underneath the right lobe of the liver.
- temporal lobe
- frontal lobe
- parietal lobe
So the frontal lobes is the break in your brain.
- So the frontal lobes is the break in your brain.
- It's the prefrontal cortex, part of a brain lobe right back here.
- So in your scan, bilateral, both sides, temporal lobes, not healthy.
- So it kind of the frontal lobes kind of track your, you know, track the memory that you're holding in mind.
- Now, there's something around narcissism and the frontal lobe not quite functioning right.
- But when the person gets to those profound experiences, the frontal lobe shuts down and quiets down.
- It's Dear God, please don't allow me to be famous before my frontal lobes have developed.
- I was suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy.
- And what Broca found was that there was a part in the left frontal lobe.
- And this process HIV impacts the prefrontal lobe specific Wow.
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That is classic frontal lobe epilepsy.
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The visual system, the visual lobe of the fly is shown here in red.
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That is taking a lobe of an adult lung and using it to transplant into a child.
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I suffered damage to the temporal lobe.
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The brain segment is the frontal lobe.
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Through their research, they find significant enlargement of the temporal lobe, the lobe responsible for auditory processing.
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The brain's frontal lobes are also where our fight-or-flight decisions are made.
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The doctor explained that the lobe of the brain responsible for memory is the temporal lobe.
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Each lobe of the human brain has a specific function, including the occipital lobe for vision.
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The leaf has a distinct lobe shape that makes it easy to identify the plant species.
Compounds
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Part of the brain at the front that controls movement you choose and thinking
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A part of the brain that helps you feel touch and temperature and know where your body is
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A brain condition that causes repeated seizures in the side of the brain, often with memory loss and strange movements
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A large part of a lung, with three on the right and two on the left
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The front part of the brain that helps with thinking and making decisions
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A fish with thick, fleshy fins that look like small limbs, including living and fossil kinds
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Etymology
The word lobe comes from Latin lobus and Greek lobos, which meant a 'rounded part' or 'pod'. That's why we call parts of the ear or brain 'lobes' — they are separate, rounded sections.