LANGUAGE AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does language area mean? 

• LANGUAGE AREA (noun)
  The noun LANGUAGE AREA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LANGUAGE AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANGUAGE AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

language area; language zone

Hypernyms ("language area" is a kind of...):

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)

Meronyms (parts of "language area"):

Broca's area; Broca's center; Broca's convolution; Broca's gyrus; convolution of Broca (the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people)

Wernicke's area; Wernicke's center (the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people)

Holonyms ("language area" is a part of...):

left brain; left hemisphere (the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body)

 Context examples 

This condition is associated with lesions of the dominant hemisphere involving the language areas, in particular the TEMPORAL LOBE.

(Anomia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)