page_title: Lobe (anatomy)
hierarchical_section_title: Lobe (anatomy)
caption_attribution_description: English: An anatomical illustration from the 1906 edition of Sobotta's Atlas and Text-book of Human Anatomy with English terminology.
context_page_description: In anatomy, a lobe is a clear anatomical division or extension of an organ that can be determined without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level. This is in contrast to the much smaller lobule, which is a clear division only visible under the microscope.
  Interlobar ducts connect lobes and interlobular ducts connect lobules.
context_section_description: In anatomy, a lobe is a clear anatomical division or extension of an organ (as seen for example in the brain, lung, liver, or kidney) that can be determined without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level. This is in contrast to the much smaller lobule, which is a clear division only visible under the microscope.
  Interlobar ducts connect lobes and interlobular ducts connect lobules.
caption: Visceral surface of the liver showing the four lobes
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