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By now, my brain has recruited portions of the FRONTAL, PARIETAL, and TEMPORAL lobes that store memory and emotion to discern whether Adam’s face is familiar.
This is what happens when you see the face of someone you love|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 25, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The coelacanth is a giant blue fish with lobe fins that are a “missing link” to the limbs of the first amphibians, and ultimately our limbs, making the coelacanths our own deep ancestors.
Twilight of the Nautilus - Issue 104: Harmony|Peter Ward|August 11, 2021|Nautilus
Where it meets the Bering Sea, the river fans out into an intricate delta resembling cauliflower lobes of river channels and ponds.
A stunning visualization of Alaska’s Yukon Delta shows a land in transition|Carolyn Gramling|July 26, 2021|Science News
Computer weather models hint that a lobe of cool air may hang around at high altitudes, keeping surface temperatures closer to average.
Coast-to-coast heat dome to deliver sweltering weather next week|Matthew Cappucci|July 22, 2021|Washington Post

To prevent this mixing up of memories from taking place, the medial temporal lobe performs a computation that separates the two sequences.
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV - Issue 93: Forerunners|Adithya Rajagopalan|December 2, 2020|Nautilus
Naturalism tells us that mystics had temporal lobe epilepsy.
Eben Alexander Has a GPS for Heaven|Patricia Pearson|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet|Cat Ferguson|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The connection between temporal lobe epilepsy and creativity is well known.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet|Cat Ferguson|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But a drug like lamotrigine is not selective, and so it also affects the behavior of the rest of the temporal lobe.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet|Cat Ferguson|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The doctors discovered the entry wound into the frontal lobe with a diameter about equal to that of a cigarette.
The Little Syrian Girl With a Bullet in Her Head|Gregory Beals|November 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
With nervous children the lobe of the ear is preferable, as it prevents their seeing what is being done.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The blood is obtained from the finger-tip or the lobe of the ear, as for a blood count; only a very small drop is required.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A diamond winked at him from the lobe of the little ear, like a star among silvery clouds.
The Reign of Greed|Jose Rizal
She planted her foot on the swell of the neck tendon, and in seven leaps she made it to the lobe of the ear.
The Jewels of Aptor|Samuel R. Delany
Earrings are common, but apparently the lobe of the ear is not unduly distended.
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga|Cornelis De Witt Willcox

British Dictionary definitions for lobe

lobe

/ (ləʊb) /

noun

any rounded projection forming part of a larger structure

any of the subdivisions of a bodily organ or part, delineated by shape or connective tissue

short for ear lobe

any of the loops that form part of the graphic representation in cylindrical coordinates of the radiation pattern of a transmitting aerialCompare radiation pattern

any of the parts, not entirely separate from each other, into which a flattened plant part, such as a leaf, is divided

Word Origin for lobe

C16: from Late Latin lobus, from Greek lobos lobe of the ear or of the liver

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Scientific definitions for lobe

lobe

[ lōb ]

A rounded projection, as on a leaf or petal. The leaves of many oak species have prominent lobes.

An anatomical division of an organ of the body. The liver, lungs, and brain are all characterized by lobes that are held in place by connective tissue.

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