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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--sternutation 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. -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. X-Bonus If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. -Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author (1803-1873)

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