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Wolff's law: a standalone construct

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Biomechanics

principle that bone adapts its mass and architecture to the mechanical loads it routinely carries.

In biomechanics, Wolff's law refers to principle that bone adapts its mass and architecture to the mechanical loads it routinely carries. This meaning comes from Frost (1990) in The Anatomical Record.[1]

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References

Frost, H. M. (1990). Skeletal structural adaptations to mechanical usage (SATMU): 1. Redefining Wolff's law: The bone modeling problem. The Anatomical Record, 226(4), 403-413. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1092260402

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