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.
PORNOCRACY
Etymology
Proper noun
pornocracy
(Roman Catholicism, historical, sometimes, capitalized) The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscurum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family. [from mid-19th c.]
Noun
pornocracy (plural pornocracies)
(derogatory, often, figuratively) A government by, or dominated by, prostitutes or corrupt persons.
(derogatory) A societal culture dominated by pornography.
Notes
Proper noun
Pornocracy
(Roman Catholicism, historical) Alternative letter-case form of pornocracy.
Source: Wiktionary
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PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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