CEPHALOHEMATOMA

cephalhematoma, cephalohematoma

(noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

21 September 2023

SHOCKINGLY

(adverb) so as to shock the feelings; “One day, she lost her temper, completely, suddenly and, even to herself, shockingly”; “Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman’s son was a desperado.”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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