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Crepitation

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n. The act of crepitating or crackling.

n. 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.

n. A crepitant rale.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of crepitating or crackling.

n. 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.

n. A crepitant râle.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A crackling noise, resembling a succession of minute explosions, such as the crackling of some salts in calcination, or the noise made in the friction of fractured bones when moved in certain directions; also, in pathology, the grating sensation felt by the hand when applied to fractured bones under movement; crepitus.

n. Specifically In pathol., certain sounds detected in the lungs by auscultation; the peculiar crackling sound which characterizes pneumonia; crepitant rales.

n. The action of a crepitaculum, as of that of a rattlesnake; stridulation.

n. In entomology, the act of ejecting a pungent fluid from the anus, with a slight noise. See crepitate, 3.

n. The peculiar crackling sensation felt on palpation of emphysematous tissues.

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n. the sharp sound of snapping noises

Word Usage

"The crepitation is the result of the action of a powerful magnetic pole upon luminous electric jets in its immediate neighborhood."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

noise

Hyponym

decrepitation

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