CREPITATION
\kɹˌɛpɪtˈe͡ɪʃən], \kɹˌɛpɪtˈeɪʃən], \k_ɹ_ˌɛ_p_ɪ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CREPITATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A crepitant rale.
By Oddity Software
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Crepitation or crepitus, (F.) Cliquetis, has been used in Surgery, to designate the noise occasioned by the friction of fractured bones, when the surgeon moves them in certain directions. When it cannot be heard at a distance, it maybe detected by the immediate application of the ear, or by the use of the stethoscope. Crepitus or crackling is likewise, met with in cases of gangrene, when air is effused into the areolar membrane- provided the part be carefully examined with the fingers. The same term is used for the cracking of the joints in health or disease.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A fine crackling noise like that made by rubbing hair between the fingers, or by the burning of pine foliage, noted in the sound made by the air entering the alveoli of the lungs, when they are inflamed.
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The noise and the sensation imparted by the grating together of the ends of fractured bones. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
