STERNUTATORY
\stˈɜːnjuːtətəɹˌi], \stˈɜːnjuːtətəɹˌi], \s_t_ˈɜː_n_j_uː_t_ə_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of STERNUTATORY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William R. Warner
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Having the quality of exciting to sneeze.
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A substance that provokes sneezing. The most familiar sternutatories are snuffs of different kinds. They are chiefly employed to occasion a violent succussion of the frame, either to restore suspended respiration, as in some cases of fainting, or to dislodge some foreign body from the nasal passages or windpipe.
By Daniel Lyons
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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