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Definition of Crepitation
1. Noun. The sharp sound of snapping noises.
Specialized synonyms: Decrepitation
Generic synonyms: Noise
Derivative terms: Crackle, Crackle, Crepitate
Definition of Crepitation
1. n. The act of crepitating or crackling.
Definition of Crepitation
1. Noun. The act of crepitating or crackling. ¹
2. Noun. A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air. ¹
3. Noun. A crepitant rale. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crepitation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Crepitation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Crepitation
Literary usage of Crepitation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Medical Gazette (1841)
"In the smaller air-tubes we have, in the вате way, small crepitation. ... If there
be merely large crepitation, without any other morbid sound, ..."
2. The London Medical Recorder (1850)
"On the 2d May the supra-spinous fossa of the right side was found duller than
the left, and the respiration bronchial, with slight crepitation heard at the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1885)
"... infra-scapular pleuritic rales without marked dulness, while at apex of same
side there is entire absence of breath-sounds, with some fine crepitation. ..."
4. Clinical essays by Benjamin Ward Richardson (1862)
"2nd, The crepitation is not absolutely governed by respiration: it is not absent
when ... Tubercular crepitation may be co-existent with pulsatile pulmonic ..."
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