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.
EXSUFFLATION
Etymology
Noun
exsufflation (plural exsufflations)
(obsolete) A blast from beneath.
(obsolete) A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.
(biology, obsolete) A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`suf*fla"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. exsufflatio.]
1. A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. (Eccles.)
Definition: A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor.
3. (Physiol.)
Definition: A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
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