In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
HYPERCALCEMIA
hypercalcemia, hypercalcaemia
(noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget’s disease
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
hypercalcemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypercalcemias)
(medicine) The presence of an unusually high concentration of calcium in the blood
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(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
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