Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
EMPYEMA
empyema
(noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
empyema (plural empyemas or empyemata)
(medicine) A collection of pus within a naturally existing anatomical cavity (as opposed to an abscess, which occurs in a newly formed cavity).
Source: Wiktionary
Em`py*e"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Definition: A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. Dunglison.
Note: The term empyema is now restricted to a collection of pus in the cavity of the pleura.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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