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.
OPTOMETER
Etymology
Noun
optometer (plural optometers)
An instrument for measuring the focus of the lens of the eye.
Anagrams
• potometer
Source: Wiktionary
Op*tom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Optic + -meter.] (Physiol.)
Definition: An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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