Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CURETTAGE
curettage, curettement
(noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
curettage (countable and uncountable, plural curettages)
(medicine) The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette.
Source: Wiktionary
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