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.
MYASTHENIA
myasthenia
(noun) any muscular weakness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
myasthenia (countable and uncountable, plural myasthenias)
(medicine) Abnormal weakness of the muscles; but especially myasthenia gravis.
Source: Wiktionary
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SUPERFETATION
(noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; “superfetation is normal in some animal species”
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