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nounFrench anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
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- broca French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
- pierre-paul broca French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
- transcortical aphasia a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex
- reticule a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries
- intervertebral disc a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two)
- fibrocartilaginous of or relating to fibrocartilage
- ruptured intervertebral disc a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region
- bendopa the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease
- intervertebral disk a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two)
- l-dopa the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease