Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BAROTRAUMA
Etymology
Noun
barotrauma (countable and uncountable, plural barotraumas)
(pathology) Damage to body tissue caused by a difference in pressure between an air space in or near the body and the surrounding air.
Hyponyms
• (tissue damage caused by air pressure difference): aerosinusitis, aerotitis, barodontalgia, barotitis
Source: Wiktionary
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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