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.
TUMOUR
tumor, tumour, neoplasm
(noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tumour (plural tumours)
(oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
Usage notes
Tumour is the favoured spelling throughout the English-speaking world with the exception of the United States, where tumor is standard.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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