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.
MAGISTRALS
Noun
magistrals
plural of magistral
Source: Wiktionary
MAGISTRAL
Mag"is*tral, a. Etym: [L. magistralis: cf. F. magistral. See Magistrate.]
1. Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
2. Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup. "Some magistral opiate." Bacon.
3. (Pharmacy)
Definition: Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. Dunglison. Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.
Mag"is*tral, n.
1. (Med.)
Definition: A sovereign medicine or remedy. [Obs.] Burton.
2. (Fort.)
Definition: A magistral line.
3. (Metal.)
Definition: Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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