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.
DEFIBRILLATE
defibrillate
(verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks; “The patient’s heart had to be defibrillated to save his life”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
defibrillate (third-person singular simple present defibrillates, present participle defibrillating, simple past and past participle defibrillated)
(transitive) To stop the fibrillation of the heart in order to restore normal contractions, especially by the use of an electric shock.
Source: Wiktionary
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