BROCA'S AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Broca's area mean? 

• BROCA'S AREA (noun)
  The noun BROCA'S AREA has 1 sense:

1. the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people

  Familiarity information: BROCA'S AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROCA'S AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

Broca's area; Broca's center; Broca's convolution; Broca's gyrus; convolution of Broca

Hypernyms ("Broca's area" is a kind of...):

center; centre; nerve center; nerve centre (a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process)

Holonyms ("Broca's area" is a part of...):

language area; language zone (a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language)

 Context examples 

This condition is caused by lesions of the motor association cortex in the frontal lobe (Broca's area and adjacent cortical and white matter regions).

(Broca's Aphasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)