Definition of Broca

1. Noun. French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880).

Exact synonyms: Pierre-paul Broca
Generic synonyms: Anthropologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Broca

Brittish
Brittney
Brittonic
Brix
Brix scale
Brizzie
Brno
Broad Church
Broad Street Bullies
Broadbent
Broadbent's law
Broadbent's sign
Broadway
Brobdingnag
Brobdingnagian
Broca (current term)
Broca's angle
Broca's aphasia
Broca's area
Broca's areas
Broca's basilar angle
Broca's center
Broca's centre
Broca's convolution
Broca's diagonal band
Broca's facial angle
Broca's field
Broca's fissure
Broca's formula
Broca's gyrus

Literary usage of Broca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1857)
"Par PAUL Broca, Agrégé I la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, Chirurgien des Hôpitaux, ... It is therefore our duty to examine how far M. Broca has proved his ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1882)
"629 Reflex disturbances from genital irritation 164 Reflexes and pseudo-reflexes . . 639 " from mucous membranes . 791 Region of Broca, Aphasia without by ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"M. Broca supposes that, in the first place, a portion of the cardiac clot was broken off, and carried by the stream of blood to the bifurcation of the aorta ..."

4. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Hermon C. Gordinier (1899)
"The portion of gray matter located between the internal root and the peduncle of the corpus callosum is called the Area of Broca; it receives fibers from ..."

5. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1863)
"In this paper M. Broca gives an account of the advantages which, ... M. Broca applies it by binding on plates of agaric, strips of adhesive plaster making, ..."

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