Renshaw, Birdsey (1911–1948), American neurologist. Renshaw is credited with investigating the nerve cells of the spinal cord that bear his name.
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Renshaw cell
noun Ren·shaw cell \ˈren-ˌshȯ-\
Medical Definition of RENSHAW CELL
: an inhibitory interneuron in the ventral horn of gray matter of the spinal cord that is held to be reciprocally innervated with a motor neuron so that nerve impulses received by way of processes of the motor neuron stimulate inhibitory impulses back to the motor neuron along an axon of the internuncial cell
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