Virchow's law

English

Etymology

After Rudolf Virchow.

Proper noun

Virchow's law

  1. The observation that, during craniosynostosis, skull growth is restricted to a plane perpendicular to the affected, prematurely fused suture and is enhanced in a plane parallel to it.
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