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.
SOMATIC
bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
somatic (not comparable)
Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.
Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
Anagrams
• atomics, osmatic
Source: Wiktionary
So*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
1. Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
2. Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo. Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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