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The tumor is only present within the breast lobules (glands that can make milk) and ducts (tubes that can carry breast milk to the nipple).
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Joy Emeh, Health, 25 Mar. 2025
The breast has several components: ducts, lobules, fat, nerves, lymph nodes, blood vessels, ligaments and other connective tissue.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 4 Mar. 2025
In a 2020 imaging study of sixteen men who sought amputation of their healthy left leg, Saetta and co-authors found atrophy in the right parietal superior lobule, a region of the brain associated with the conscious representation of the size and shape of one’s body.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
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
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...
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
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Joy Emeh, Health, 25 Mar. 2025
The breast has several components: ducts, lobules, fat, nerves, lymph nodes, blood vessels, ligaments and other connective tissue.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 4 Mar. 2025
In a 2020 imaging study of sixteen men who sought amputation of their healthy left leg, Saetta and co-authors found atrophy in the right parietal superior lobule, a region of the brain associated with the conscious representation of the size and shape of one’s body.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
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
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...
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
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“Lobule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lobule. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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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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