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Broca's aphasia

 
–noun Pathology.
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.

Origin:
1955–60; after P. Broca
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Main Entry: Bro·ca's aphasia
Pronunciation: (")brO-"käz-, "brO-k&z-
Function: noun
: MOTOR APHASIA
Broáca /bro-ko,/ Pierre–Paul (1824–1880), French surgeon and anthropologist. One of the great French anthropologists,Broca founded modern craniometry and made extensive comparative studies of the craniums and brains of the races of humankind. In 1861 he announced his discovery that the center of articulate speech isusually in the third left frontal convolution of the brain—an area now most commonly known as Broca's area. His discovery furnished the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function.He associated loss of the power of speech with brain lesions, a condition that is now commonly termed motor aphasia or Broca's aphasia.

Main Entry: motor aphasia
Function: noun
: the inability to speak or to organize the muscular movements of speech called also aphemia, Broca's aphasia
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Broca's aphasia Bro·ca's aphasia (brō'kəz)
n.
See motor aphasia.

motor aphasia n.
Aphasia in which the power to communicate by writing, speaking, or using signs is lost. Also called ataxic aphasia, Broca's aphasia, expressive aphasia.

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