noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ear lobe
frontal lobes
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the frontal lobes of the brain
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
frontal
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Even in his haste he noted subtle distinctions of taste between cerebellum and cortex, between frontal lobes and limbic system.
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It showed a tumor in the frontal lobe in a very awkward place: close to the motor strip and language areas.
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Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe .
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You have to lose lots of frontal lobe , or lots of language cortex.
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This is implied by the dyspraxia that sometimes occurs in frontal or parietal lobe disease in the absence of paralysis.
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The neurologists talk about an accountant with a large tumor involving the base of his frontal lobes .
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The patient with damage to one frontal lobe catches on to the original sorting strategy and gets the string of yes answers.
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George chatted with the patient for a moment and went on to test more of the frontal lobe .
left
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A chest radiograph revealed a patchy infiltrate in the left lower lobe .
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I loved the pointy beard and razor-sharp eyes, the pearl earring fixed in his left lobe .
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He has a silver peace-sign stud earring in his left lobe .
optic
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Links also occur between the two optic lobes and run from the medial part of the protocerebrum to each medulla separately.
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In the second paper, describes the discovery of a new class of neuron in the optic lobe of the dragonfly.
parietal
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Those from the parietal lobe are associated with motor and sensory symptoms and disorders of the body image.
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Defects of body in ge may be more likely with a stroke centered in the lower portions of the parietal lobe .
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One is the inferior temporal cortex and the other the inferior parietal lobe .
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This is implied by the dyspraxia that sometimes occurs in frontal or parietal lobe disease in the absence of paralysis.
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That seems to activate the cerebral cortex in the parietal lobes more than in the frontal lobes.
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The parietal lobes are probably what keep our visual experiences from looking like an amateur videotape, jerking from here to there.
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Yet it has many reciprocal connections to the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe, big pipelines through the white matter.
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And the motor strip is part of the frontal lobe , forming its rear border with the parietal lobe.
right
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This biopsy was taken from the anterior surface of the right lobe of the liver.
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The right temporal lobe is particularly interested in the emotional content of the facial expression.
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Previous studies of novelty-seeking behaviour suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe .
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George has tried stimulating the right temporal lobe while showing patients such actors' faces depicting a standard emotion like disgust.
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He operated on her for a rather large right frontal lobe tumor.
temporal
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The tentative diagnosis was temporal lobe epilepsy which affected his personality.
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The loss of consciousness results from the epileptic process involving hippocampal regions of the medial temporal lobes .
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George once had a patient who heard Led Zeppelin music each time a particular temporal lobe site was stimulated.
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Much less severe memory deficits are sometimes seen after removal of the temporal lobe on only one side.
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Maybe only several dozen, judging from some of the work on temporal lobe neurons involved in face recognition.
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Then George applied the stimulating current to the temporal lobe , just below the motor and speech areas.
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Automatisms can originate from almost anywhere in the temporal lobe , but seldom from any other part of the brain.
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I can hardly wait to hear about left temporal lobe epileptics.
■ NOUN
ear
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Weapons and other devices hung within his blood-red, high-collared cloak; and a communicator dangled from one ear lobe .
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He tugged his ear lobe , our agreed sign for the other to remain silent.
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Nicola moved her lips along Richard's neck and nuzzled his ear lobe delicately.
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He studied the Gascon's dark effete face and the jewel-encrusted pearl which swung arrogantly from one ear lobe .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even in his haste he noted subtle distinctions of taste between cerebellum and cortex, between frontal lobes and limbic system.
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Failure in this frontal-thalamic link accounts for loss of interest in the surroundings after frontal lobe damage.
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He studied the Gascon's dark effete face and the jewel-encrusted pearl which swung arrogantly from one ear lobe .
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It consists of two lateral lobes and a single small dorsal lobe.
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It is a star in serious trouble, with bright bloated lobes of gas swelling off it, announcing its death throes.
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It showed a tumor in the frontal lobe in a very awkward place: close to the motor strip and language areas.
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Sometimes the hallucinations associated with small seizures in the temporal lobe have characteristics suggestive of schizophrenic thought, especially paranoia.
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That seems to activate the cerebral cortex in the parietal lobes more than in the frontal lobes.