Broca

Broca definition - medical

Bro·ca (brōˈkə, brō-käˈ), 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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