Balfour's law
Balfour's law
[′bal·fərz ‚lȯ] (embryology)
The law that the speed with which any part of the ovum segments is roughly proportional to the protoplasm's concentration in that area; the segment's size is inversely proportional to the protoplasm's concentration.
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