(v. i.) 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.
(n.) A sudden and violent ejection of air with an audible sound, chiefly through the nose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(2) The speediest effect was registered for sneezing, followed by nasal catarrh, nasal itching, and blocking.
(3) Absence of sneezing or inability to sneeze was found in 2.6% of psychiatric patients, although only half complained of the symptom spontaneously.
(4) Topical BDP by both methods of delivery was rapidly effective in decreasing mean nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and itching symptoms as well as mean eye symptoms with no statistically significant differences between them.
(5) The response to nasal challenge was monitored by counting the number of sneezes, the assessment of subjective symptoms, and by measuring the levels of histamine and TAME-esterase activity in recovered nasal lavages.
(6) A particular mucosal syndrome with sneezing and conjunctivitis was seen only after administration of the lysine salt.
(7) Airborne Ptychodiscus brevis toxin (PBTX), produced by Ptychodiscus brevis (Florida red tide), induces cough, rhinorrhea, watery eyes, and sneezing in normal individuals and wheezing in subjects with asthma.
(8) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
(9) The two treatments were equally effective in controlling eye irritation, sneezing, nasal congestion and itchy nose, throat and palate, but cetirizine improved rhinorrhea more than terfenadine (P less than .05).
(10) Further functions are: the voluntary interruption of the urinary stream, the reflectory occlusion by elevated intraabdominal pressure (coughing, sneezing, laughing, heavy physical work), expression of the rest of urine in the urethra after micturition, stabilization of the proximal urethra in the urogenital diaphragm.
(11) A 35 year old man experienced severe transitory neck pain following a violent sneeze.
(12) Sampling of human subjects, who had been in contact with animals infected with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, showed that virus could be recovered from the nose, throat, saliva and from air expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking and breathing.
(13) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(14) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(15) The patient scorings for nasal secretion, nasal itching, sneezing bouts and total nasal symptoms were significantly different between the treatment groups during the whole treatment period.
(16) The severity of the symptoms sneezing, running nose, blocked nose and itchy eyes was recorded daily by each patient on a 10 cm visual analog scale.
(17) No patient developed cough or wheezing or required treatment at the end of the nasal-challenge tests, even when persistent sneezing was provoked or in the subject who had a dual nasal response to nasal challenge.
(18) A similar, although non-significant, trend was observed for sneezing and itchy nose, but there was no apparent difference in the reporting of sore eyes.
(19) They will also show signs of breathing problems including gaping beaks, coughing, sneezing and rattling wheezing.
(20) Aspirin significantly inhibited the increases in the cyclooxygenase metabolites PGE, PGD2, PGF2 alpha, 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, and thromboxane but did not affect the amount of sneezing or the levels of histamine, TAME-esterase activity, or leukotrienes.