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.
CALCIFIES
Verb
calcifies
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calcify
Source: Wiktionary
CALCIFY
Cal"ci*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcified; p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying.] Etym: [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.]
Definition: To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Cal"ci*fy, v. i.
Definition: To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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