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Wolff's law

Wolff's law proper noun: the rule that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed, becoming stronger to resist that sort of loading.

Proper noun

Wolff's law

  1. The rule that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed, becoming stronger to resist that sort of loading.

Origin of Wolff's law

Developed by the German anatomist and surgeon Julius Wolff (1836–1902).

Questions about Wolff's law

What does Wolff's law mean?
Wolff's law means the rule that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed, becoming stronger to resist that sort of loading.
What part of speech is Wolff's law?
Wolff's law is a proper noun.

Words near Wolff's law in the dictionary

  1. wolfess
  2. wolfesses
  3. Wolff
  4. Wolff rearrangement
  5. Wolff rearrangements
  6. Wolff's law
  7. Wolff-Chaikoff effect
  8. Wolff-Chaikoff effects
  9. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
  10. Wolffe
  11. wolffian

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