Lobe

//ləʊb//

"Lobe" in a Sentence (9 examples)

No student has ever complained of pains in the front lobe of the left side of the brain.

Children below the age of 8 have an underdeveloped frontal lobe that might cause them to be unable to separate reality from fantasy. Some of them might believe that there are monsters in their closet or under the bed, for example. They are also sometimes unable to distinguish dreams from reality.

Located on the right frontal lobe of her brain, the tumor threatened to damage her left hand’s fine motor skills — the hand that controls the notes being played on the violin.

My left ear lobe is swollen.

The left frontal lobe plays a role in controlling mood and emotion.

We looked at their brain during this word task and, lo and behold, that area in the left frontal lobe lit up much more than other people when they were trying to do this task.

A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.

He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.

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.

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