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.
INOCULATION
inoculation, vaccination
(noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
inoculation (countable and uncountable, plural inoculations)
(immunology) The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
(microbiology) The introduction of a microorganism into a culture medium.
The insertion of the buds of one plant into another; grafting.
An inoculum; that which is inoculated.
Source: Wiktionary
In*oc"u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. inoculatio: cf. F. inoculation.]
1. The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
2. (Med.)
Definition: The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.
Note: The use was formerly limited to the intentional communication of the smallpox, but is now extended to include any similar introduction of modified virus; as, the inoculation of rabies by Pasteur.
3. Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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