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.
DEPRESSIONS
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depressions
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DEPRESSION
De*pres"sion, n. Etym: [L. depressio: cf. F. dépression.]
1. The act of depressing.
2. The state of being depressed; a sinking.
3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
4. Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
5. Dejection; despondency; lowness. In a great depression of spirit. Baker.
6. Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
7. (Astron.)
Definition: The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
8. (Math.)
Definition: The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
9. (Surg.)
Definition: A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8. Angle of depression (Geod.), one which a descending line makes with a horizontal plane.
– Depression of the dewpoint (Meteor.), the number of degreees that the dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere.
– Depression of the pole, its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator.
– Depression of the visible horizon. (Astron.) Same as Dip of the horizon, under Dip.
Syn.
– Abasement; reduction; sinking; fall; humiliation; dejection; melancholy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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