Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott
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Sherrington,
Sir Charles Scott, English physiologist and Nobel laureate, 1857-1952.Liddell-Sherrington reflex - see under Liddell
Schiff-Sherrington phenomenon - see under Schiff, Moritz
Sherrington law - every dorsal spinal nerve root supplies a particular area of the skin.
Sherrington phenomenon - after the muscles of the leg have been deprived of their motor innervation, stimulation of the sciatic nerve causes slow contraction of the muscles.