Anatomy
temporal lobe
tem·po·ral lobe [ tem-per-uhl, tem-pruhl lohb ]
Subclass of:
Cerebral cortex
Definitions related to temporal lobe:
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Lower lateral part of the cerebral hemisphere responsible for auditory, olfactory, and semantic processing. It is located inferior to the lateral fissure and anterior to the OCCIPITAL LOBE.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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One of the cerebral lobes. It is located inferior to the frontal and parietal lobes and anterior to the occipital lobe.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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One of the four major subdivisions of the two hemispheres of the brain's cerebral cortex. The temporal lobe plays a role in hearing, long-term memory, and behavior.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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Temporal lobe is the ventrolateral lobe of five lobes comprising each cerebral hemisphere. It is bounded dorsally by the lateral fissure and posteriorly by an arbitrary border shared with the occipital lobe.Foundational Model of AnatomyUniversity of Washington, 2017
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The second largest of the four cerebral lobes, the temporal lobe is approximately twenty two percent of the total neocortical volume. The temporal lobe can be divided into two main sections: first, the neocortex, comprising its lateral and inferolateral surfaces, and its standard cerebral cortex; and, second, the mesial temporal lobe, which is sometimes referred to as the limbic lobe, and includes the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the parahippocampal gyrus. Grossly, the lobe extends superiorly to the Sylvian fissure, and posteriorly to an imaginary line, the lateral parietotemporal line, which separates the temporal lobe from the inferior parietal lobule superiorly and the occipital lobe inferiorly. The middle cranial fossa forms its anterior and inferior boundaries.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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(temporal lobe/cortex) Lower lateral lobe of the cerebral hemisphere.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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