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.
VESICATORY
vesicatory, vesicant
(adjective) causing blisters
vesicant, vesicatory
(noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
vesicatory (comparative more vesicatory, superlative most vesicatory)
(medicine) Causing blistering.
Synonyms
• vesicant
• blistering
Noun
vesicatory (plural vesicatories)
(medicine) An agent that causes blistering.
Synonyms
• vesicant
Source: Wiktionary
Ves"i*ca*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. vésicatoire.] (Med.)
Definition: Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
– n.
Definition: A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RECREANT
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