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.
FOMES
Fomes, genus Fomes
(noun) genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fomes (plural fomites)
(obsolete, medical) The morbid matter created by a disease.
(archaic, medical) synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
(archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fo"mes, n.; pl. Fomites. Etym: [L. fomes, -itis, touch-wood, tinder.] (Med.)
Definition: Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RECREANT
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