adjective
- relating to or affecting a lobe or lobes, especially of the lungs or brain
Usage: medical/anatomical term
Examples
- The patient was diagnosed with lobar pneumonia affecting the right lung.
- A lobar hemorrhage in the brain required immediate surgical intervention.
- Lobar consolidation was visible on the chest X-ray.
- The infection spread to multiple lobar regions of the lungs.
- Lobar atrophy can occur in certain neurodegenerative diseases.