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ectopia
noun
The condition such that an organ or other body part has an abnormal position.
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An ectopia is a collection of several hundred nerve cells that have pushed their way up from the lower cortical layers into the outermost one, where they are not found in normal circumstances.
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These are called ectopias and microgyria.The language centres of the brain, known as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, after the 19th-century researchers who discovered them, are part of the cerebral cortex on the left-hand side of the organ.
The inability to distinguish between sounds in quick succession is a symptom of dyslexia in people, too.Jo Lo Turco of the University of Connecticut, who also attended the meeting, did a similar test on mice that had genetically induced ectopias.
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