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.
QUINTANS
Noun
quintans
plural of quintan
Anagrams
• qanunist, quinnats
Source: Wiktionary
QUINTAN
Quin"tan, a. Etym: [L. quintanus, fr. quintus fifth, quinque five. See Five.]
Definition: Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
– n. (Med.)
Definition: An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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