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.
DESQUAMATION
desquamation, peeling, shedding
(noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
desquamation (countable and uncountable, plural desquamations)
(medical) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
Source: Wiktionary
Des`qua*ma"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. desquamation.] (Med.)
Definition: The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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