How to Use photic in a Sentence
photic
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This type of sneezing is also known as photic sneezing.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
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But the photic sneeze seems to recruit broader sensory networks in the brain itself, so this cannot be the case.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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For this reason, the researchers proposed that the photic sneezes aren’t as reflexive as previously thought.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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This suggests that photic sneezers are unusually sensitive to bright light from the very earliest stages of visual processing.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Most sneezes are triggered by contact with infectious agents or after inhaling irritants, but the cause of photic sneezing is not fully understood.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
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This phenomenon is formally known as the photic sneeze reflex, or as an Autosomal Cholinergic Helio-Ophthalmologic Outburst — unofficially blessing it with the spectacular acronym ACHOO syndrome.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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