EIJKMAN

Eijkman, Christiaan Eijkman

(noun) Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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