lobar
lobar
Definition
lo·bar (lō′bər, -bär′)
adjective
of a lobe or lobes lobar pneumonia
Etymology: ModL lobaris
lobar
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- pneumonia: A small percentage of elderly people with lobar pneumonia die very quickly.
- degeneration: Patients who would have previously been told they had Pick's Disease may now be told they have frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
- collapse: This short tutorial is designed to explain the typical appearances of the various types of lobar collapse on the plain chest film.
- bronchus: Each lobe receives named lobar bronchi dividing them into segmental bronchi that supply the bronchopulmonary segments.
- hemorrhage: Deep infarct had the least risk; subarachnoid hemorrhage and lobar intracerebral hemorrhage had the highest risk.
