lobar
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- interlobar adjective
- multilobar adjective
- pseudolobar adjective
Etymology
Origin of lobar
From the New Latin word lobāris, dating back to 1855–60. See lobe, -ar 1
Example Sentences
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A post-mortem examination found he died from lobar pneumonia - a severe bacterial infection.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner announced in January 2019 that she died a natural death due to lobar pneumonia — despite conspiracy theories that were shut down by her children.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024
Alzheimer's disease is well known, but there are many other tauopathies, including frontotemporal lobar degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
Autopsies found the heart muscle itself often “relaxed and flabby, offering a strong contrast to the firm, contracted left ventricle nearly always present in post-mortem in bodies of patients dying from lobar pneumonia.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2020
We had lobar pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis, streptococcal infections, diphtheria, endocarditis, enteric fevers, various septicemias, syphilis, and, always, everywhere, tuberculosis.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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