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.
MALLEI
MALLEUS
malleus, hammer
(noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
mallei
plural of malleus
Anagrams
• maille
Source: Wiktionary
MALLEUS
Mal"le*us, n.; pl. Mallei. Etym: [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.]
1. (Anat.)
Definition: The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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