In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
BIOPHILIA
Etymology
Noun
biophilia (uncountable)
(obsolete, rare) Hypochondria.
(psychology) The biological drive to preserve oneself; love of life.
The love of or empathy with nature and all living things.
Source: Wiktionary
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MEGACOLON
(noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung’s disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate)
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