Renshaw cell

Renshaw cell
Ren·shaw cell 'ren-.shȯ- n 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
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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