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Weigert's law (medicine)


Weigert's law


The loss or destruction of a part or element in the organic world is likely to result in compensatory replacement and overproduction of tissue during the process of regeneration or repair (or both), as in the formation of callus when a fractured bone heals.

Synonym: overproduction theory.