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Lightwood's law (Microbiology 🦠)
Lightwood's law is the principle that, in medicine, bacterial infections will tend to localise while viral infections will tend to spread. This is based on the observation that while bacterial sepsis tends, despite affecting the whole body, to have a clear site of origin or 'focus', the opposite may be true of viral infections. There may...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightwood's_law
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Lightwood's law (Microbiology 🦠)
Lightwood's law is the principle that, in medicine, bacterial infections will tend to localise while viral infections will tend to spread. This is based on the observation that while bacterial sepsis tends, despite affecting the whole body, to have a clear site of origin or 'focus', the opposite may be true of viral infections. There may...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightwood's_law
#LightwoodSLaw #Adages #Microbiology #EponymsInMedicine #MedicalTerminology