| Lobo | Jorge, 20th century Brazilian physician. See: Lobo's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Lobo's disease | A chronic localised mycosis of the skin reported from South America resulting in granulomatous nodules or keloids that contain budding, thick-walled cells about 9 u in diameter, i.e., the tissue form of Loboa loboi, the causative fungus, which has not been cultured. Synonym: Lobo's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Loboa loboi | A species of fungus causing lobomycosis. The organism is still classified by some as Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, which causes paracoccidioidomycosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobomycosis | A chronic localised mycosis of the skin reported from South America resulting in granulomatous nodules or keloids that contain budding, thick-walled cells about 9 u in diameter, i.e., the tissue form of Loboa loboi, the causative fungus, which has not been cultured. Synonym: Lobo's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobopodia | <cell biology> Hemispherical protrusions from the front of a moving tissue cell. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lobopodium | A thick lobose pseudopodium. Origin: G. Lobos, lobe, + pous, foot (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobosa | <zoology> An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba. Origin: NL. See Lobe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lobose | 1. Divided into lobes. 2. Lobe-shaped; denoting a bacterial colony with a deeply undulate margin. Synonym: lobose, lobous. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobosea | A class of ameboid protozoa that forms either filiform subpseudopodia or lobopodia. Characteristics include the absence of sorocarps, sporangia, or similar fruiting bodies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lobotomy | 1. Incision into a lobe. 2. Division of one or more nerve tracts in a lobe of the cerebrum. Origin: G. Lobos, lobe, + tome, a cutting (05 Mar 2000) |