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Developmental biology

the empirical relation that the average area of a cell in a packed epithelium rises linearly with its number of sides.

In developmental biology, Lewis's law refers to the empirical relation that the average area of a cell in a packed epithelium rises linearly with its number of sides. This meaning comes from Lewis (1928) in The Anatomical Record.[1]

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References

Lewis, F. T. (1928). The correlation between cell division and the shapes and sizes of prismatic cells in the epidermis of cucumis. The Anatomical Record, 38(3), 341-376. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090380305

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