Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
POIKILOCYTE
Etymology
Noun
poikilocyte (plural poikilocytes)
(physiology) An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.
Source: Wiktionary
Poi"ki*lo*cyte, n. Etym: [Gr. (Physiol.)
Definition: An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anæmia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FATIGUE
(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”
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