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Only in some of these brain areas did neural activation peak prior to the spontaneous arising of a thought – most notably in the medial temporal lobe and inferior parietal lobule...
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Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
Cysts form when fluid collects at the spot where a lobule, which produces milk during lactation, meets a milk storage duct.
—Rebekah Kuschmider, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
In 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer again—this time with ductal carcinoma, like before, and lobular carcinoma, a cancer that affects the lobules that produce milk and empty out in the milk ducts.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 4 Sep. 2019
Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
Cysts form when fluid collects at the spot where a lobule, which produces milk during lactation, meets a milk storage duct.
—Rebekah Kuschmider, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
In 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer again—this time with ductal carcinoma, like before, and lobular carcinoma, a cancer that affects the lobules that produce milk and empty out in the milk ducts.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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“Lobule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lobule. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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lobule
noun
lob·ule
ˈläb-(ˌ)yü(ə)l 
1
: a small lobe
the lobule of the ear
2
: a subdivision of a lobe
specifically
: one of the small masses of tissue of which various organs (as the liver) are made up
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