An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BLASTEMA
blastema
(noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
blastema (plural blastemas or blastemata)
(physiology) A clump of undifferentiated cells or blasts, from which an organ or body part will develop, either during the normal growth of an embryo or in the regeneration of a lost body part.
Anagrams
• labmates, lambaste
Source: Wiktionary
Blas*te"ma, n.; pl. Blastemata. Etym: [Gr. bud, sprout.] (Biol.)
Definition: The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CIRCULATE
(verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; “Blood circulates in my veins”; “The air here does not circulate”
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