sublobularadj.

1833 F. Kiernan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 714 One surface of every lobule, which may be called its base, rests upon a sublobular vein.

1868 J. Marshall Outl. Physiol. 536 From this network proceeds a small vein, occupying the centre of each lobule, named the intra-lobular vein..; it opens by a minute orifice, situated in the middle of the base of the lobule, into the corresponding sublobular vein.

1904 Böhm & von Davidoff's Text-bk. Histol. (ed. 2) 254 They [sc. the interlobular ducts of a salivary gland]..give off branches and end in ducts which ramify between the lobules and are known as sublobular ducts.

1954 G. P. Gladstone in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxv. 453 An alternative view that congestion of the liver is due to direct damage to the walls of the sinusoids followed by hæmorrhage and pressure on the intra- and sublobular veins.

1999 Jrnl. Zoo & Wildlife Med. 30 344 VOD [= veno-occlusive disease] was characterized by partial to complete occlusion of centrilobular or sublobular veins with subintimal accumulations of fibrous tissue.

1855 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 28 17/1 Seeds several, ovate, angular; receptacle sublobular, in the base of the capsule.

1886 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 17 405 One end of the inner ridge is sublobular, faintly imitating the gigot lobe.

1964 N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 72 87 In all the galls some stem mothers were still present; they were very pale yellow in color and large and sublobular.

1912 H. T. Brooks Text-bk. Gen. & Special Pathol. 727 These bacteria (bacterial emboli) enter various, often very small, intralobular vessels, remain fixed in these, and produce inflammation..which then is variously shaped, often smaller than a lobule: sublobular, intralobular.

1951 Brit. Jrnl. Radiol. 24 396/1 In these areas there is coalescence of some or all of these sub-lobular areas of consolidation.

1978 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 78 326/1 The volume density of the hepatocyte nuclei fluctuated considerably throughout the life-span, but there was no consistent difference in this parameter between the two sublobular zones.

2002 R. H. Rubin & L. S. Young Clin. Approach Infection Compromised Host (ed. 4) iv. 133/2 Sublobular nodules may be caused by acute or chronic pneumonias, metastases, or large granulomas.