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Broca
[ broh-kuh; French braw-ka ]
noun
- Paul [pawl], 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist.
Broca
/ brɔka /
noun
- BrocaPaul18241880MFrenchMEDICINE: surgeonSOCIAL SCIENCE: anthropologist Paul (pɔl). 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist who discovered the motor speech centre of the brain and did pioneering work in brain surgery
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Broca published an account of the osteological characters a few years later.
Professors Bronn and Broca have urged this objection on the continent.
Broca felt that this observation pointed strongly to a localization of the memory of words in a definite area of the brain.
The destruction of Broca's centre, as was early discovered, does not altogether deprive a patient of his knowledge of language.
Campagne, Broca, G. Wilson, and others about the same time made similar researches.
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