lobe
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Pope Leo XIV's recovery from surgery to remove a lower lobe of his lung is "progressing as expected", his doctors have said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The 71-year-old pontiff underwent an operation to remove the lower lobe of his right lung.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Vatican said "the lower lobe of the right lung was removed" during Tuesday's operation to remove the mass.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Vatican also released a statement saying the lower lobe of the pope’s right lung was removed, but that he experienced no complications from the procedure and returned to his room.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
He came back to the desk, knelt down beside it, real close, and flapped his lobe out so it sat like a tiny pancake on the top edge of the desk.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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Once those jets stop supplying energetic particles to the galaxy's large radio lobes, the particles already inside the lobes gradually lose energy, and the radio emission becomes fainter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Early in the disease, regions around the hippocampus, deep within the brain's temporal lobes, are among the first to be affected.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The frontal lobes play an important role in planning, decision-making, and other executive functions, while the occipital lobes are central to visual processing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Participants who spent a large portion of their workday sitting actually had larger frontal and occipital lobes and lower white matter hyperintensity volumes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
“To make a choice, you need frontal lobes active and you need enough competitors in other parts of the brain so that you can engage systems to make a decision.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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