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.
EXSCIND
Etymology
Verb
exscind (third-person singular simple present exscinds, present participle exscinding, simple past and past participle exscinded)
(medicine, surgery) To cut out.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*scind", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exscinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exscinding.] Etym: [L. exscindere; ex out, from + scindere to cut.]
Definition: To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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