PATHOLOGY

PATHOLOGY MCQ

HEALING AND REPAIR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following laws states the bone adapts to the stress and load that is placed on it and becomes stronger?
A
Julius’s Law
B
Wolff’s Law
C
Spurgeon’s Law
D
Julian’s Law
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wolff’s Law states that your bones will adapt based on the stress or demands placed on them. When you work your muscles, they put stress on your bones. In response, your bone tissue remodels and becomes stronger.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wolff’s Law is the idea that natural healthy bones will adapt and change to adapt to the stress that it is subjected to. For example, if the bones are subjected to heavier and heavier loads, they will naturally reconstruct themselves to accommodate that weight. This is how bones typically respond to stress.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wolff’s law, developed by the German anatomist and surgeon Julius Wolff (1836–1902) in the 19th century, states that bone in a healthy animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed.

Detailed explanation-4: -This phenomenon is often loosely referred to as ‘Wolff’s law’, named after the German anatomist/surgeon Julius Wolff who suggested that the form of bone is related to mechanical stress by a mathematical law.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Wolff’s law, bones in the living body will adapt to mechanical loads under which they are placed. If loads on a particular bone increase, the bone will remodel to become thicker and stronger to resist the loads. The inverse is also true; if loads on a bone decrease, the bone will become thinner and weaker.

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