Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
HYBRIDOMA
hybridoma
(noun) a hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a lymphocyte and a tumor cell; used to culture a specific monoclonal antibody
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hybridoma (plural hybridomas)
(immunology) A hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell; used to generate monoclonal antibodies
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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