LANGUAGE AREA
Dictionary entry overview: What does language area mean?
• LANGUAGE AREA (noun)
The noun LANGUAGE AREA has 1 sense:
1. a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language
Familiarity information: LANGUAGE AREA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LANGUAGE AREA (noun)
Meaning:
A large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
language area; language zone
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)
