| 单词 | wernicke's area |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWernicke's area a. A neurological disorder in which there is an inability to understand speech and, usually, to speak sensibly, caused by a lesion of Wernicke's area, an area of the cerebral cortex comprising parts of the temporal and parietal lobes. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders hardbound?a1425 bound1704 Wernicke1887 mind-blind1905 Alzheimer1911 Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome1934 brain-damaged1946 kernicteric1956 brain-dead1972 C-J1972 hypsarrhythmic1977 flatline1978 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1987 the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cortex > parts of molecular layer1867 motor cortex1880 Wernicke's area1887 operculum1889 map1945 1887 H. F. Vickery & P. C. Knapp tr. A. von Strümpell Textbk. Med. 679 The word, when it is heard, may fail to call up the appropriate mental image. Kussmaul has given this condition the name of word deafness (Wernicke's sensory aphasia). The patient is not really deaf, for he hears everything, but he no longer understands what he hears, and has forgotten what the words signify. 1907 Practitioner Oct. 545 In the Aphasia of Broca..the cases..closely resemble those of Wernicke's aphasia, with the difference that, in Broca's aphasia, the patient cannot speak. 1908 A. Gordon Dis. Nerv. Syst. vii. 118 Pierre Marie..holds that aphasia..is caused by a lesion in the lenticular nucleus and in Wernicke's zone; the latter comprises the following portions: supra-marginal gyrus, angular gyrus, the posterior portions of the first two temporal convolutions. 1965 W. R. Brain Speech Disorders (ed. 2) v. 56 Patients with sensory or Wernicke's aphasia or jargon aphasia include logorrhoeic patients with abundant paraphasias and serious defects of comprehension. 1976 New Yorker 15 Nov. 152/2 There are two areas of the cortex that have been shown to be directly involved in speaking. Those areas—known since the late nineteenth century as Broca's area and Wernicke's area— are on the side of the brain (usually the left) that is dominant for speech. 1979 Sci. Amer. Sept. 161/1 In Wernicke's aphasia speech is phonetically and even grammatically normal, but it is semantically deviant. < as lemmas |
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