BROCA

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• BROCA (noun)
  The noun BROCA has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: BROCA used as a noun is very rare.

• BROCA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Broca; Pierre-Paul Broca

Instance hypernyms:

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

 Context examples 

In the north the Saracen's head of the Brocas and the scarlet fish of the De Roches were waving over a strong body of archers from Holt, Woolmer, and Harewood forests.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This condition is caused by lesions of the motor association cortex in the frontal lobe (Broca's area and adjacent cortical and white matter regions).

(Broca's Aphasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

One only lingered, the black-browed Baron Brocas, who, making a gambade which brought him within arm-sweep of the serf, slashed him across the face with his riding-whip.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is the Saracen's head of Sir Bernard Brocas,” quoth he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What would the gentles Sir Nicholas Boarhunte, or Sir Bernard Brocas, of Roche Court, say if they saw such a thing—or, perhaps, even the King's own Majesty himself, who often has ridden past this way, and who loves his falcons as he loves his sons?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)