Broca

[ broh-kuh; French braw-ka ]

noun

1. Paul [pawl], 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist.

Broca

/ brɔka /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Broca published an account of the osteological characters a few years later.

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Professors Bronn and Broca have urged this objection on the continent.

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Broca felt that this observation pointed strongly to a localization of the memory of words in a definite area of the brain.

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The destruction of Broca's centre, as was early discovered, does not altogether deprive a patient of his knowledge of language.

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Campagne, Broca, G. Wilson, and others about the same time made similar researches.

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