lobar
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of lobar
From the New Latin word lobāris, dating back to 1855–60. See lobe, -ar 1
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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
Some 94% of the PCA patients had Alzheimer's pathology and the remaining 6% had conditions like Lewy body disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
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
It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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