This week's theme: words related to medicine.

sternutation (stur-nyuh-TAY-shuhn) noun

   The act of sneezing or a sneeze.

[From Latin sternuere (to sneeze).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=sternutation

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "And all three forget their sectional differences in a delightful concert
   of sternutation. No business is too grave; no speaker too elegant to be
   sneezed at."
   Marjorie Hunter; The Days of Snuff and Such; The New York Times;
   Dec 4, 1985.

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http://wordsmith.org/words/sternutation.ram

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