Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LEUKEMIA
leukemia, leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood
(noun) malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
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Etymology
Noun
leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)
A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues.
(countable) Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues.
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FELLOW
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
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