- motor speech area
- see Broca motor speech a. and Wernicke second motor speech a.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
motor speech area
Look at other dictionaries:
Broca amnesia motor speech area etc. — Bro·ca amnesia, motor speech area, etc. (bro kahґ) [Pierre Paul Broca, French anatomist, anthropologist, and surgeon, 1824–1880] see under area, convolution, and fissure, and see expressive aphasia, under aphasia, visual plane, under plane, and … Medical dictionary
Broca motor speech area — an area comprising parts of the opercular portion of the inferior frontal gyrus; injury to this area may result in a minor form of motor aphasia … Medical dictionary
motor aphasia — n the inability to speak or to organize the muscular movements of speech called also aphemia, Broca s aphasia * * * aphasia in which there is impairment of the ability to speak and write, owing to a lesion in the insula and surrounding operculum … Medical dictionary
motor area — n any of various areas of cerebral cortex believed to be associated with the initiation, coordination, and transmission of motor impulses to lower centers specif a region immediately anterior to the central sulcus having an unusually thick zone… … Medical dictionary
speech — /speech/, n. 1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. 2. the act of speaking: He expresses… … Universalium
speech disorder — n. any conspicuous speech imperfection, or variation from accepted speech patterns, caused either by a physical defect in the speech organs or by a mental disorder, as aphasia, stuttering, etc. * * * ▪ medicine Introduction any of the… … Universalium
Speech and language pathology — Speech language pathology is the study of disorders that affect a person s speech, language, cognition, voice, swallowing (dysphagia) and the rehabilitative or corrective treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in… … Wikipedia
Motor neurone disease — Classification and external resources spinal diagram ICD 10 G12.2 … Wikipedia
Apraxia of speech — A severe speech disorder characterized by inability to speak, or a severe struggle to speak clearly. Apraxia of speech occurs when the oral motor muscles do not or cannot obey commands from the brain, or when the brain cannot reliably send those… … Medical dictionary
Wernicke area — Wernicke second motor speech area originally a term denoting a language center thought to be confined to the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus adjacent to the transverse temporal gyri; the term now includes a wider zone that… … Medical dictionary
