broca's area

What does broca's area mean?

broca's area means "the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people".

What is another word for broca's area?

Close synonyms include Broca's center, Broca's gyrus, Broca's convolution, convolution of Broca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is broca's area a common word?

broca's area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for broca's area come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.