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Definition of Language zone
1. Noun. A large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language.
Group relationships: Left Brain, Left Hemisphere
Generic synonyms: Cortical Area, Cortical Region
Terms within: Broca's Area, Broca's Center, Broca's Convolution, Broca's Gyrus, Convolution Of Broca, Wernicke's Area, Wernicke's Center
Medical Definition of Language zone
1. A large area of the cerebral cortex on the left side (in right-handed persons) considered by some to embrace all the centres of memories and associations connected with language. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Language Zone
Literary usage of Language zone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1913)
"But there are cases of Broca 's aphasia from lesion of the anterior language zone
with integrity of Wernicke's zone. 2. There are no certain cases on record ..."
2. A Textbook of Human Physiology: Including a Section on Physiologic Apparatus. by Albert Philson Brubaker (1922)
"The language zone.—These different areas are connected with one another by
association fibers, and, taken collectively, constitute the language zone, ..."
3. The Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe by Leon Dominian (1917)
"The areas of Romansh, Friulian, Ladin, Albanian and Rumanian are remnants of this
ancient language zone. Even the Slavic language of the ..."
4. The Roots of the War: A Non-technical History of Europe, 1870-1914, A.D. by William Stearns Davis, William Anderson, Mason Whiting Tyler (1918)
"They constitute a part of that neutral language zone stretching from Belgium
south and east through Luxemburg, along the upper Rhine valley, ..."
5. Deficiencies in Reading Ability: Their Diagnosis and Remedies by Clarence Truman Gray (1922)
"The entire nervous mechanism which has been described is spoken of as the language
zone. This is represented by Collins as shown in Figure 19. ..."
6. Stakes of the War: Summary of the Various Problems, Claims, and Interests of by Lothrop Stoddard, Glenn Frank (1918)
"The capital of the Duchy of Lorraine was Nancy, a city lying well within the
French language-zone. The court of the Lorraine dukes thereby became ..."
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