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.
IMPETIGO
impetigo
(noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
impetigo (plural impetigos or impetigoes or impetigines)
(pathology) A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.
Synonyms
• school sores
Source: Wiktionary
Im`pe*ti"go, n. Etym: [L., fr. impetere to attack.] (Med.)
Definition: A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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