Coined by Mary Leitao after a usage by Sir Thomas Browne, apparently a corruption of the Provençal term masclous, "little flies".
Morgellons
(pathology) A controversial, unproven skin disorder usually dismissed as delusional parasitosis, and characterized by skin lesions producing odd fibers of unknown origin.
(obsolete) A disease causing hairs to grow on the backs of children.
• (skin disorder with fibers): Morgellons disease, Morgellons syndrome
Source: Wiktionary
19 September 2024
(adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
