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51Broca, Philippe de — (1933 2004) Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Philippe de Broca is well known for his comedies and adventure films. He started as an assistant to director Henri Decoin, and then worked as a documentary filmmaker in Africa, before… …
52Broca, Philippe de — (1933 2004) Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Philippe de Broca is well known for his comedies and adventure films. He started as an assistant to director Henri Decoin, and then worked as a documentary filmmaker in Africa, before… …
53Broca's center — noun the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people • Syn: ↑Broca s area, ↑Broca s gyrus, ↑Broca s convolution, ↑convolution of Broca • Hypernyms: ↑center, ↑centre, ↑nerve center, ↑ …
54Broca's area — Anat. a cerebral area, usually in the left inferior frontal gyrus, associated with the movements necessary for speech production. Also called Broca s gyrus, Broca s convolution. [1900 05; after P. BROCA] * * * …
55Broca's aphasia — Bro·ca s aphasia (.)brō .käz , .brō kəz n MOTOR APHASIA Bro·ca brȯ kȧ Pierre Paul (1824 1880) French surgeon and anthropologist. One of the great French anthropologists, Broca founded modern craniometry and made extensive comparative studies of …
56Broca's aphasia — noun aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired • Syn: ↑motor aphasia, ↑ataxic aphasia, ↑expressive aphasia, ↑nonfluent aphasia • Hypernyms: ↑aphasia * * * (ˈ)brō|käz , ˈbrōkəz noun …
57Broca's aphasia — Pathol. a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca s area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes. Also called motor aphasia. [1955 60; after P. BROCA] * * * …
58Broca, Paul — ► (1824 80) Cirujano y antropólogo francés. Descubrió el centro del lenguaje en la tercera circunvolución frontal izquierda del cerebro que lleva su nombre. * * * (28 jun. 1824, Sainte Foy la Grande, Francia–9 jul. 1880, París). Cirujano francés …
59Broca amnesia motor speech area etc. — Bro·ca amnesia, motor speech area, etc. (bro kahґ) [Pierre Paul Broca, French anatomist, anthropologist, and surgeon, 1824–1880] see under area, convolution, and fissure, and see expressive aphasia, under aphasia, visual plane, under plane, and …
60Broca's area — noun Etymology: Paul P. Broca died 1880 French surgeon Date: circa 1903 a brain center associated with the motor control of speech and usually located in the left side of the frontal lobe …
