Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wernicke's_center

1 sense of wernicke's center

Sense 1
Wernicke's area, Wernicke's center -- (the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people)
       => center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre -- (a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere")