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
hypercalcemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypercalcemias)
(medicine) The presence of an unusually high concentration of calcium in the blood
Source: Wiktionary
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
