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Broca

uncommon

noun

1.

French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca''s area (1824-1880)

Origin

Borrowed from French or Spanish Broca.

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