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Definition of Convolution of broca

1. Noun. The motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people.

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Literary usage of Convolution of broca

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1. The Genesis and Dissolution of the Faculty of Speech: A Clinical and by Joseph Collins (1898)
"This convolution is usually known as the convolution of Broca. It borders the fissure of Sylvius below, and posteriorly it is continuous ..."

2. The Story of Nineteenth-century Science by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"That part of the brain has since been known to the English-speaking world as the convolution of Broca, a name which, strangely enough, the discoverer's ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"In the frontal lobe there are two of these convolutions (F 3), the third frontal convolution, or the convolution of Broca, and (AF) the fourth frontal ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"In the frontal lobe there are two of these convolutions (F 3), the third frontal convolution, or the convolution of Broca, and (AF) the fourth frontal ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"In some of the cases in which motor aphasia has been present, the convolution of Broca apparently remaining intact, lesions have been present in both the ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"In some of the cases in which motor aphasia has been present, the convolution of Broca apparently remaining intact, lesions have been present in both the ..."

7. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1867)
"... which was diseased just at the point where it joins the convolution of Broca. Tn the latter convolution * Broca, ' Sur le Siege de la Faculte du Langage ..."

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