sternutatory
Americanadjective
noun
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sternutatories
plural
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sternutatory
1610–20; < Late Latin sternūtātōrius, equivalent to sternūtā ( re ) ( see sternutation) + -tōrius -tory 1
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They were mostly arsenic compounds and were not only sternutatory but also toxic, producing the after effects of arsenic poisoning.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Victor Lefebure
Its principal use at present is as a sternutatory.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
E. D.—The odour of the fresh plant is rather unpleasant, and the taste acrid, herbaceous, and astringent; and the powdered leaves act as a strong sternutatory.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Its effects as a sternutatory, i. e. as exciting to sneeze, are known to all.
From A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco by Moses Stuart
Errhine, er′in, adj. affecting the nose.—n. a sternutatory.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Adjuvant measures are hot baths, poultices, inunctions, fumigations and sternutatories, and the use of certain herbs.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
From his theory of the action of the air through the nose on the contents of the ventricles of the brain is explained his use of sternutatories, and his belief in the efficacy of sneezing.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
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