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.
SYPHILIS
syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues
(noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
syphilis (uncountable)
(disease) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
Synonyms: great-pox (obsolete), French disease, French pox (archaic), lues, lues venerea, syph
Coordinate terms: clap, gonorrhea
Hypernyms: STD, VD
Source: Wiktionary
Syph"i*lis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Syphilus, the name of a shepherd in the Latin poem of Fracastoro, "Syphilus, sive Morbus Gallicus," which was published in 1530; Gr. (Med.)
Definition: The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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