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Lobule vs Cyst - What's the difference?

lobule | cyst |

As nouns the difference between lobule and cyst

is that lobule is a small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe while cyst is a pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

lobule

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
  • (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
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    • The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule', usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some ''Frullania'' taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the '''lobules''', and ''Neohattoria'' has caducous ' lobules but persistent lobes.

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    cyst

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

    • See also

    * enchondroma ----