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Sherrington

American

[sher-ing-tuhn] / ˈʃɛr ɪŋ tən /

noun

Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.

Sherrington British

/ ˈʃɛrɪŋtən /

noun

Sir Charles Scott. 1857–1952, English physiologist, noted for his work on reflex action, published in The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (1906): shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Adrian (1932)

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