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.
COMMATA
Etymology
Noun
commata
plural of comma
Source: Wiktionary
COMMA
Com"ma, n. Etym: [L. comma part of a sentence, comma, Gr. Capon.]
1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: A small interval (the difference beyween a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus.
РComma butterfly (Zo̦l.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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