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LANGUAGE AREA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language

Synonyms:

language area; language zone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("language area" is a kind of...):

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)

Meronyms (parts of "language area"):

Broca's area; Broca's center; Broca's convolution; Broca's gyrus; convolution of Broca (the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people)

Wernicke's area; Wernicke's center (the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people)

Holonyms ("language area" is a part of...):

left brain; left hemisphere (the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body)

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