Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PNEUMOGASTRICS
Noun
pneumogastrics
plural of pneumogastric
Source: Wiktionary
PNEUMOGASTRIC
Pneu`mo*gas"tric, a. Etym: [Pneumo- + gastric.] (Anat.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
– n.
Definition: The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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