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hobnail(dictionary)
hobnail(medicine)
hobnail tongue(medicine)
hobnail liver(medicine)
hobnail cells(medicine)
Wernicke(dictionary)
Wernicke's zone(medicine)
Wernicke, Karl(medicine)
wernicke's aphasia(medicine)

Wernicke's region (medicine) and hobnail (medicine)


Wernicke's region (medicine)


Wernicke's region -->
Wernicke's centre


The region of the cerebral cortex thought to be essential for understanding and formulating coherent, propositional speech; it encompasses a large region of the parietal and temporal lobes near the lateral sulcus of the left cerebral hemisphere; corresponding approximately to Brodmann's areas 40, 39, and 22.

Synonym: sensory speech centre, Wernicke's area, Wernicke's field, Wernicke's region, Wernicke's zone.


hobnail (medicine)


hobnail


1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

2. A clownish person; a rustic.

<medicine> Hobnail liver, a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

Origin: 1st hob + nail.

Source: Websters Dictionary