Sherrington

[ sher-ing-tuhn ]

noun

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

Sherrington

/ ˈʃɛrɪŋtən /

noun

1. SherringtonSir Charles Scott18571952MEnglishSCIENCE: physiologist 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)

Example Sentences

The final results were 400 votes to Mr Sherrington, 392 to Conservative Michael Wood and 40 to the Labour candidate Shanti Flynn.

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While Andrew Sherrington won by only eight votes, it amounted to a swing of more than 30% to his party.

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Aidan Sherrington, a 26-year-old lecturer at Craven College, heard the mortgage news on the radio during his 20-minute commute from Colne in Lancashire to Skipton.

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"If buying was much easier we'd do it," Mr Sherrington, who rents with his partner, says.

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Thomas Sherrington, mitigating, said his client genuinely believed the premises fell into Cheshire and since proceedings had started, he had suffered multiple heart attacks and the prognosis was "grim".

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