Chiefly Anat. [ad. mod.L. LOBULUS.] A small lobe.

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1682.  T. Gibson, Anat. (1697), 14. The lobules of which the Lungs are composed.

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1720.  Hale, in Phil. Trans., XXXI. 5. Every Duct is made of lesser Ducts united, which rise from the Lobules … which constitute each distinct Lobe.

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1800.  Med. Jrnl., III. 139. Its last adhesion, was to the helix of the left ear, just above the lobule.

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1866.  Huxley, Preh. Rem. Caithn., 157. The nose nearly straight and ending in a rounded lobule. Ibid. (1872), Physiol., v. 119. The smallest obvious subdivisions of the liver substance … which are termed the lobules.

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1880.  [see LOBELET].

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