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Lobe vs Multilobe - What's the difference?

lobe | multilobe |

As nouns the difference between lobe and multilobe

is that lobe is while multilobe is (geometry) a kind of closed curve.

As an adjective multilobe is

having more than one lobe.

lobe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
  • (anatomy) A division of the brain.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes' and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these ' lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

    Hyponyms

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    Derived terms

    * ear lobe * frontal lobe * occipital lobe * parietal lobe * temporal lobe * trilobite

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    multilobe

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having more than one lobe.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A kind of closed curve.