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.
COLICS
Noun
colics
plural of colic
Source: Wiktionary
COLIC
Col"ic, n. Etym: [F. colique, fr. L. colicus sick with the colic, GR. Colon.] (Med.)
Definition: A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct.
– Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas.
– Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning.
– Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter.
– Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.
Col"ic, a.
1. Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.
2. (Anat.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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