a. Phys., etc. [f. LOBULE + -AR.] Pertaining to or having the form of a lobule or lobules. of pneumonia: Affecting the lobules of the lungs.

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1822–34.  Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), I. 389. The substance of the lungs is lobular.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xl. 116. A lobular substance consisting of granules filling the whole cavity of the body.

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1834.  J. Forbes, Laennec’s Dis. Chest (ed. 4), 199. Central peripneumonies, and those denominated lobular.

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1845.  Budd, Dis. Liver, 55. Lobular pneumonia.

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1889.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Lobular fissures, the sulci between the several cerebral and cerebellar lobules.

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1892.  Woodhead, Pract. Pathol. (ed. 3), 372. Lobular pneumonia.

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  Hence Lobularly adv.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 386. The left lung was … condensed with … lobularly disposed lesions throughout.

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