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SNEEZING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose
Synonyms:
sneeze; sneezing; sternutation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("sneezing" is a kind of...):
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)
Derivation:
sneeze (exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sneeze
Context examples:
Coronaviruses probably spread through the air by coughing or sneezing, or by close personal contact.
(Coronavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Symptoms include sneezing, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea and itching.
(Allergic Rhinitis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Diphenhydramine blocks histamine effects, preventing sneezing and itchy, watery eyes, as well as nasal and other allergy and hay fever symptoms.
(Acetaminophen/Diphenhydramine, NCI Thesaurus)
Then she fell to backing away and sneezing, her nose bristling with quills like a monstrous pin-cushion.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
After seven days he was well enough to be discharged with the advice not to block both nostrils when sneezing in future.
(Blocking A Sneeze, Man Ruptures Throat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It blocks a chemical released during an allergic response that causes itching, sneezing, runny nose, wheezing, and watery eyes.
(Allegra, NCI Dictionary)
Symptoms include sneezing, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, and itching.
(Allergic Rhinitis, NCI Thesaurus)
Doxylamine succinate, an antihistamine, blocks the effects of histamine, thereby treating symptoms such as sneezing, itchy, watery eyes, runny nose, itchy throat and causes drowsiness.
(Nyquil, NCI Thesaurus)
We desired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to the mid leg in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up to our faces set us both a sneezing for several times together.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Flu viruses with superior ability to transmit through the air are those that outcompete other flu virus variants in the soft palate and that inflammation associated with infection there stimulates the sneezing and coughing needed to better propel flu virus onward to new contacts.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
