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.
HOUSTONIA
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
houstonia (plural houstonias)
(botany) Any of the genus Houstonia of rubiaceous flowering plants.
Source: Wiktionary
Hous*to"ni*a, n. [NL. So named after Dr. William Houston, an English surgeon and botanist.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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9 January 2025
PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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