Broca's area
/ˈbrəʊkə/noun
- Anatomy a region of the brain concerned with the production of speech, located in the cortex of the dominant frontal lobe. Damage in this area causes Broca's aphasia, characterized by hesitant and fragmented speech with little grammatical structure.【剖】布罗卡氏区, 白洛嘉脑回(大脑左前区的清晰语言区)。
词源
late 19th cent.: named after Paul Broca (1824- 80), French surgeon.