SINCE 1828
Pascal's law
noun
Pas·cal's law
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Medical Definition of Pascal's law
: a statement in physics: a force applied to an enclosed fluid at equilibrium is transmitted uniformly and with undiminished intensity in all directions throughout the fluid
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