(Certain events and circumstances can delay or âtollâ statutes of limitations, essentially lengthening the time period for bringing a claim.) Assume one person wants to sue another for assault and battery. Assume also that the statute of limitations for assault and battery is two years.
In some ways the Jod-Basedow phenomenon is the opposite of the Wolff-Chaikoff effect, which refers to the short period of thyroid-hormone suppression which happens in normal persons and in persons with thyroid disease, when comparatively large quantities of iodine or iodide are ingested.
For the album by The Joy Formidable, see Wolf's Law. Wolff's law, developed by the German anatomist and surgeon Julius Wolff (1836â1902) in the 19th century, states that bone in a healthy person or animal will adapt to the loads under which it is placed. If loading on a particular bone increases, the bone will remodel itself over time to become stronger to resist that sort of loading.