| lobelet | <botany> A small lobe; a lobule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| lobelia | <botany> A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. Cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red colour of its flowers. Origin: NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King James I. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lobeliaceous | <botany> Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lobelin | <medicine> A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lobeline | <chemistry> A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lobes of cerebrum | lobi cerebri |
| lobes of mammary gland | The 15 to 20 separate portions of the mammary gland that radiate from the central area deep to the nipple like wheel spokes and comprise the body of the mammary gland; each is drained by a single lactiferous duct. Synonym: lobi glandulae mammariae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobes of thyroid gland | The two major divisions of the gland lying on the right and left side of the trachea and connected by the isthmus. A smaller pyramidal lobe is frequently present as an upward extension from the isthmus. Synonym: lobi glandulae thyroideae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobi | Plural of lobus. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobi glandulae mammariae | The 15 to 20 separate portions of the mammary gland that radiate from the central area deep to the nipple like wheel spokes and comprise the body of the mammary gland; each is drained by a single lactiferous duct. Synonym: lobi glandulae mammariae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobi glandulae thyroideae | The two major divisions of the gland lying on the right and left side of the trachea and connected by the isthmus. A smaller pyramidal lobe is frequently present as an upward extension from the isthmus. Synonym: lobi glandulae thyroideae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobiped | <zoology> Having lobate toes, as a coot. Origin: Lobe + L. Pes, pedis, foot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lobitis | Inflammation of a lobe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loblolly | Gruel; porridge; so called among seamen. Loblolly bay, a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Lobo | Jorge, 20th century Brazilian physician. See: Lobo's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |