English Explanatory Dictionary

mechanostat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

mechanostat mechanostats

Etymology

From mechano- + -stat.

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