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cerebral localization

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cerebral localization [sə′rē·brəl lō·kə·lə′zā·shən]
(cell and molecular biology)
Designation of a specific region of the brain as the area controlling a specific physiologic function or as the site of a lesion.
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Aubertin would concede that the hypothesis of cerebral localization was false if anyone there could show him one case of speech loss without a lesion in the frontal lobe of the brain.
Brain injury and language by Businelle, Catherine P. / Verbatim
He thus performed a craniotomy based on cerebral localization and positioned his craniotomy at this site.
Pierre Paul Broca. (A Portrait in History) by Jay, Venita / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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