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Definition of Sternutatory

1. Adjective. Tending to cause sneezing.

2. Noun. A chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying. "Police used a sternutatory to subdue the mob"

3. Adjective. Causing sneezing. "Pepper is a sternutatory substance"

Definition of Sternutatory

1. a. Sternutative.

Definition of Sternutatory

1. Adjective. That causes or induces sneezing; sternutative. ¹

2. Noun. Any substance that causes sneezing; a sternutator ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sternutatory

sternsman sternsmen sternson sternsons sternum sternums sternutate sternutated sternutates sternutating

sternutation sternutations sternutative sternutator sternutators sternutatory (current term) sternward sternwards sternway sternways

sternwheel sternwheeler sternwheelers sternwheels steroid alcohol steroid hormone steroidal steroidally steroidlike

Literary usage of Sternutatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... n. a sternutatory Stetho- (in compds.), stetho- Stetho-graph, m. Riegel's instrument for graphically registering movements of respiration Stetho-graphie ..."

2. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"... melts at 180° C., is sternutatory, and by potassa is split into ... is sternutatory, with sugar and H2SO4 is colored deep green and blue, and by potassa ..."

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