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.
GRISTLE
cartilage, gristle
(noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gristle (countable and uncountable, plural gristles)
Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
(figuratively, from obsolete scientific theory) Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.
Anagrams
• Stigler, glister, riglets
Source: Wiktionary
Gris"tle, n. Etym: [OE. gristel, gristil, AS. gristl; akin to OFries. gristel, grestel. Perh. a dim. of grist but cf. OHG. krustila, krostela. Cf. Grist.] (Anat.)
Definition: Cartilage. See Cartilage. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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