Landmark · Visceral systems
Lobe of lung
Lobus pulmonis
- System
- Visceral systems
- Regions
- Trunk, Thorax
- Side
- Right
- Landmark on
- Inferior lobe of right lung
DescriptionUnreviewed
Each lung is divided into sections called lobes by the infoldings of the visceral pleura as fissures.
Lobes are divided into segments, and segments have further divisions as lobules.
There are three lobes in the right lung and two lobes in the left lung.
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Names
- Latin
- Lobus pulmonis
- English
- Lobe of lung
- French
- Lobe du poumon
- Spanish
- Lóbulo del pulmón
- Portuguese
- Lóbo do pulmão