lobes

Noun

lobe (plural lobes)

1. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
   • A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
2. A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
   • 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...2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
3. (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.