mechanostat

English

Etymology

mechano- +‎ -stat

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.

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