{{short description|Clear anatomical division of an organ visible with naked eyes}}{{other|Lobe (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox anatomy | Name = Lobes | Latin = | Image = Sobo 1906 389.png | Caption = Visceral surface of the liver showing the four lobes | Precursor = | System = | Artery = | Vein = | Nerve = | Lymph = }} In anatomy, a '''lobe''' is a clear anatomical division or extension<ref>{{cite web |title=Types of lobes |url=http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/srchcont_dict.asp?src=lobe |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927112541/http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/srchcont_dict.asp?src=lobe |archive-date=27 September 2017 |website=eMedicine Dictionary}}</ref> of an organ (as seen for example in the brain, lung, liver, or kidney) that can be determined without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level. This is in contrast to the much smaller '''lobule''', which is a clear division only visible under the microscope.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Histology of Glands |url=https://histology.siu.edu/intro/glands.htm#5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425052247/https://histology.siu.edu/intro/glands.htm#5 |archive-date=25 April 2022 |access-date=25 April 2022 |website= |publisher=Southern Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, Illinois}}</ref>
Interlobar ducts connect lobes and interlobular ducts connect lobules.
==Examples of lobes== *The four main lobes of the brain **the frontal lobe **the parietal lobe **the occipital lobe **the temporal lobe *The three lobes of the human cerebellum **the flocculonodular lobe **the anterior lobe **the posterior lobe *The two lobes of the thymus *The two and three lobes of the lungs **Left lung: superior and inferior **Right lung: superior, middle, and inferior *The four lobes of the liver **Left lobe of liver **Right lobe of liver **Quadrate lobe of liver **Caudate lobe of liver *The renal lobes of the kidney *Earlobes
===Examples of lobules=== [[File:Lobules and ducts of the breast.jpg|thumb|Lobules of the mammary glands.]] *the cortical lobules of the kidney *the testicular lobules of the testis *the lobules of the mammary gland *the pulmonary lobules of the lung *the lobules of the thymus
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