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.
SCHISTOSOMIASIS
schistosomiasis, bilharzia, bilharziasis
(noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
schistosomiasis (plural schistosomiases)
(pathology) Any of various diseases of humans caused by parasitic blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma.
Synonyms
• (pathology): bilharzia, bilharziasis, bilharziosis, snail fever
Source: Wiktionary
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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