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.
GASTROSCOPY
gastroscopy
(noun) visual examination of the stomach by means of a gastroscope inserted through the esophagus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gastroscopy (countable and uncountable, plural gastroscopies)
An examination of esophagus, stomach and duodenum using endoscope.
Synonyms
• esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Hypernyms
• endoscopy
Source: Wiktionary
Gas*tros"co*py, n. (Med.)
Definition: Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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