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.
INCONTINENCY
incontinence, incontinency
(noun) involuntary urination or defecation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
incontinency (countable and uncountable, plural incontinencies)
incontinence
Source: Wiktionary
In*con"ti*nence, In*con"ti*nen*cy, n. Etym: [L. incontinentia: cf. F. incontinence.]
1. Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness. That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 1 Cor. vii. 5. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. Milton.
2. (Med.)
Definition: The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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