Sherrington

[sher-ing-tuh n]

noun

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

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And I remember once, when I was staying at Sherrington, we drove over to the cathedral.
In the Wilderness
Robert Hichens
This was Sherrington, the stage-manager who had been engaged to produce the play.
Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color
Brander Matthews
Sherrington insists that his way of playing it is more dramatic.
Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color
Brander Matthews
Sherrington knows how to get his best work out of everybody.
Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color
Brander Matthews
They paused at the corner to wait for a cable-car, and Sherrington joined them.
Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color
Brander Matthews

British Dictionary definitions for sherrington

Sherrington

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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sherrington in Medicine

Sherrington

[shĕr′ĭng-tən]Sir Charles Scott 1857-1952

British neurologist. He shared a 1932 Nobel Prize for advances in the understanding of the function of the neuron.