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Bro⋅ca

  [broh-kuh; Fr. braw-ka]
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–noun
Paul  [pawl] , 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist.
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Broca Bro·ca (brō'kə, brō-kä'), Paul. 1824-1880.

French anthropologist and surgeon. He became the first to offer anatomical proof of the localization of brain functions when he discovered (1861) the center of articulate speech in the brain.

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