| 单词 | sternutation |
| 释义 | sternutation (once / 274868 pages) n Sternutation is the formal word for sneeze. When everything is covered with yellow pollen, many people have fits of sternutation. Hand them tissues. You’ll probably never need this word unless you need extra syllables for haiku about spring. Sternutation is caused by some irritant — dust, animal dander, or smoke, for example — inside the nose, which causes a sudden burst of air from your lungs to escape your nose and mouth in a sneeze. The purpose of sternutation is to clear your nasal passages of foreign substances. Interestingly, sternutation is impossible while you're asleep. The Latin root is sternuere, "to sneeze." WORD FAMILYsternutation: sternutations+/sternutator: sternutation, sternutative, sternutators, sternutatory/sternutatory: sternutatories USAGE EXAMPLESHe has a good online following, eager to hear about his latest sternutation, and says he will continue for the rest of his life. BBC(Oct 10, 2014) His sneeze count, currently just over 4,000, has a healthy online following as people log in to read about his latest sternutation. BBC(Oct 07, 2014) At the sound of that meek sternutation Jim whirled about. Ostrander, Isabel, Anything Once(2010) n a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose Syn|Hyper sneeze, sneezing inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus symptom(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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