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.
HETEROCLITIC
Etymology
Adjective
heteroclitic (comparative more heteroclitic, superlative most heteroclitic)
(linguistics) In linguistics, particularly Indo-European Studies, signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékw-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yékwr, genitive *ikwnés). In Proto-Indo-European, heteroclitic stems tend to be noun stems with grammatically inanimate gender.
(microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
Noun
heteroclitic (plural heteroclitics)
A heteroclitic noun.
Source: Wiktionary
Het`er*o*clit"ic, Het`er*o*clit"ic*al, a. Etym: [See Heteroclite.]
Definition: Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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