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.
PTEROTIC
Pte*ro"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Anat.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the proötic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.
– n.
Definition: The pterotic bone.
Note: The pterotic bone is so called because fancied in some cases to resemble in form a bird's wing
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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