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the only body part designed to be pierced, dangled from, and yanked affectionately
means A soft, rounded, often projecting part of something — most familiarly the fleshy lower bit of the ear, but also a division of the brain, lung, or liver.
from From Late Latin lobus, borrowed from Greek lobos, meaning the lobe of the ear or liver. The Greek word likely belongs to a family of terms suggesting something hanging or drooping — fitting, since a lobe is, at heart, a dangling little flap of flesh.
- no muscle
- earlobes have no cartilage, just fat and skin
- attached or free
- a single gene decides if yours dangles
- brain regions
- your cortex splits into four named lobes
- liver too
- the liver has four lobes of its own
- ancient bling
- oldest pierced lobes date back over 12,000 years
temporal lobe — part of the brain where the primary auditory cortex processes sound in humans
frontal lobe — largest lobe in the human brain, controls executive function and motor control
lobe of the ear — soft, fleshy lower part of the external ear found on all humans