crepitation

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He spoke of dulness and crepitation, and the effects of the African air.

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  1. 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. The pent crepitation of dozens of India fire-crackers, which the youth of Pierpont were discharging all about the village green. H. W. Preston, Year in Eden, x.
  2. Specifically In pathol., certain sounds detected in the lungs by auscultation; the peculiar crackling sound which characterizes pneumonia; crepitant rales.
  3. The action of a crepitaculum, as of that of a rattlesnake; stridulation.

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  1. = French crépitation = Spanish crepitacion = Portuguese crepitação, from Latin as if *crepitatio(n-), from crepitare, past participle crepitatus, crackle: see crepitate.
 

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