Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
TRICROTISM
Noun
tricrotism (uncountable)
(biology) The condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat, so that the pulse curve obtained in a sphygmographic tracing shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary one.
Source: Wiktionary
Tri"cro*tism, n. (Physiol.)
Definition: That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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