See Also: lobuli thymi(medicine)
ala lobuli centralis(medicine)
coloboma lobuli(medicine)
lobuli epididymidis(medicine)
lobuli testis(medicine)
lobuli glandulae mammariae(medicine)
lobuli glandulae thyroideae(medicine)
pars convoluta lobuli corticalis renis(medicine)
pars radiata lobuli corticalis renis(medicine)

benight (iou) and lobuli thymi (medicine)


benight (iou)



benight verb trans. LME.
[from BE- 4 + NIGHT noun.]
Cover, hide, or involve in the darkness of night. Usu. (and arch. exc.) in pass. LME.
De Quincey The tourists were benighted in a forest.
fig. Involve in intellectual or moral darkness; darken, cloud. Freq. in pass. E17.
W. Davenant Now jealousie no more benights her face. J. Wilson What men..call Religion, now benighting half the earth. Isaiah Berlin The mass of the proletarians themselves were too benighted to grasp the role which history had called on them to play.
benightedness noun the state of being benighted M19.
benightment noun (rare) M17.

lobuli thymi (medicine)


lobuli thymi -->
lobules of thymus
Areas of thymic tissue 0.5 to 2 mm in diameter with a cortex and medulla.

Synonym: lobuli thymi.