Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
ANTIPERIODIC
Etymology
Adjective
antiperiodic (not comparable)
(medicine) preventing the regular recurrence of symptoms
(mathematics) Exhibiting antiperiodicity.
Noun
antiperiodic (plural antiperiodics)
(medicine) A drug that prevents the regular recurrence of symptoms.
Source: Wiktionary
An`ti*pe`ri*od"ic, n. (Med.)
Definition: A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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MECHANISM
(noun) the technical aspects of doing something; “a mechanism of social control”; “mechanisms of communication”; “the mechanics of prose style”
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