Definition of Sherrington

1. Noun. English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952).

Exact synonyms: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Generic synonyms: Physiologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sherrington

Sheraton
Sheremetyevo
Sheri
Sheridan
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlockian
Sherman
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Sherman-Munsell unit
Sherman unit
Shermanesque
Sherpa
Sherpur District
Sherri
Sherrington
Sherrington's law
Sherrington phenomenon
Sherry
Sherwood
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Forest
Sheryl
Shetland
Shetland Islands
Shetland ponies
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Shetland sheep dog
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Shetland wool

Literary usage of Sherrington

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"... AND sherrington, On pilo-motor nemes, Journal of Physiology, 1891, XII, 278. The authors designate as pilo-motor those nerves which control the erection ..."

2. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"By CS sherrington. It was demonstrated upon a number of rotating discs that the " flickering" of sectors of a disc turning at speeds insufficient to give ..."

3. A Text-book of physiology by Isaac Ott (1913)
"By observations upon the chimpanzee, sherrington and Gruen- baum have shown that ... sherrington and Gruenbaum also found in the middle and inferior frontal ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiology by Isaac Ott (1909)
"By observations upon the chimpanzee, sherrington and Gruen- aum have shown that the motor ... In accordance witli these facts of sherrington, and from his ..."

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