- Broca's aphasia
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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]
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Broca's aphasia
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Broca 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 … Medical dictionary
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Broca motor speech area — an area comprising parts of the opercular portion of the inferior frontal gyrus; injury to this area may result in a minor form of motor aphasia … Medical dictionary
