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mechanostat

mechanostat noun: a model describing bone growth and bone loss, based on a refinement of Wolff's law, and according to which these processes are stimulated by the local mechanical elastic deformation of bone.

Noun

mechanostat (plural mechanostats)

  1. A model describing bone growth and bone loss, based on a refinement of Wolff's law, and according to which these processes are stimulated by the local mechanical elastic deformation of bone.

Forms of mechanostat

pluralmechanostats

Origin of mechanostat

From mechano- + -stat.

Questions about mechanostat

What does mechanostat mean?
Mechanostat means a model describing bone growth and bone loss, based on a refinement of Wolff's law, and according to which these processes are stimulated by the local mechanical elastic deformation of bone.
What part of speech is mechanostat?
Mechanostat is a noun.
What is the plural of mechanostat?
The plural of mechanostat is mechanostats.

Words near mechanostat in the dictionary

  1. mechanosome
  2. mechanosomes
  3. mechanostabilities
  4. mechanostability
  5. mechanostable
  6. mechanostat
  7. mechanostats
  8. mechanostimulation
  9. mechanostimulations
  10. mechanostimulatory
  11. mechanostimuli

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