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.
OSTEOMALACIA
osteomalacia
(noun) abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
osteomalacia (countable and uncountable, plural osteomalacias)
(medicine) A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets
Source: Wiktionary
Os`te*o*ma*la"ci*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)
Definition: A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
16 November 2024
LEAVE
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
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