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.
ECBOLIC
Adjective
ecbolic (comparative more ecbolic, superlative most ecbolic)
(medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.
Noun
ecbolic (plural ecbolics)
(medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.
Source: Wiktionary
Ec*bol"ic, n. Etym: [See Ecbole.] (Med.)
Definition: A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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