LOBULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lobular mean? 

• LOBULAR (adjective)
  The adjective LOBULAR has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or resembling a lobule

  Familiarity information: LOBULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOBULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or resembling a lobule

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

lobule (a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe)

Derivation:

lobularity (the property of having lobules)

lobule (a small lobe or subdivision of a lobe)

 Context examples 

Another type is infiltrating lobular carcinoma, which begins in the lobules (milk glands) of the breast.

(Infiltrating breast cancer, NCI Dictionary)

Examples include ductal hyperplasia, lobular hyperplasia, and papillomas.

(Benign proliferative breast disease, NCI Dictionary)

A lobular breast carcinoma which has spread from the original site of growth to another anatomic site.

(Metastatic Lobular Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Another type of breast cancer is lobular carcinoma, which begins in the lobules (milk glands) of the breast.

(Breast Cancer, NCI Dictionary)

A carcinoma arising from the breast, most commonly the terminal ductal-lobular unit.

(Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples include atypical ductal hyperplasia, usual ductal hyperplasia, columnar cell hyperplasia, and atypical lobular hyperplasia.

(Breast Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic spectrum of lesions that arise in the terminal ductal lobular units of the breast parenchyma.

(Columnar Cell Lesion of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

A breast carcinoma characterized by the presence of a lobular and a ductal component.

(Mixed Lobular and Ductal Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is usually solitary and confined to a single lobular unit.

(Atypical ductal breast hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign papillary neoplasm that arises in a terminal ductal lobular unit.

(Peripheral Breast Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)