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.
EXTRAVASCULAR
Etymology
Adjective
extravascular (not comparable)
Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`tra*vas"cu*lar, a. (Anat.) (a) Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues. (b) Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CHEMICAL
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