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Renshaw Cell

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Renshaw Cell Definition

An inhibitory interneuron in the ventral horn of gray matter of the spinal cord that is held to be reciprocally innervated with a motoneuron so that nerve impulses received by way of processes of the motoneuron stimulate inhibitory impulses back to the motoneuron along an axon of the internuncial cell.

Renshaw Cell Synonyms

Renshaw Cell

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