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Nodule vs Lobe - What's the difference?

nodule | lobe |

As nouns the difference between nodule and lobe

is that nodule is a rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump while lobe is .

nodule

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.
  • Derived terms

    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.}}

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    Derived terms

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

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