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Sneeze

To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.

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Reflex 76% connected

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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Sneezing 74% connected

of Sneeze

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Sneezing 74% connected

of Sneeze

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Exhale 72% connected

To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

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Expire 72% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Sneezing 92% connected

of Sneeze

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sternutation 92% connected

The act of sneezing.

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