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.
FURUNCLE
boil, furuncle
(noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
furuncle (plural furuncles)
A boil or infected, inflamed, pus-filled sore.
Source: Wiktionary
Fu"run*cle, n. Etym: [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.)
Definition: A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
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