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  • noun Plural form of crepitation.

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Examples

  • The crackles and crepitations and rales make me sound like the eighth dwarf, Wheezy, and even the dog walk was tiring.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Steve Perry 2010

  • The crackles and crepitations and rales make me sound like the eighth dwarf, Wheezy, and even the dog walk was tiring.

    The Seven Deadly Sins Steve Perry 2010

  • But he uses words most often to express the crepitations of his apprehensive susceptibility.

    The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

  • - Examination: dullness to percussion, diminished vesicular breath sounds, crepitations and sometimes bronchial breath sounds.

    Chapter 7 1993

  • - Basal crepitations on auscultation of both lung fields.

    Chapter 14 1993

  • - Acute gangrenous cellulitis: as with suppuration, plus crepitations on palpation.

    Chapter 14 1993

  • But Endeavour reported no change; its sensors still de - tected nothing but faint thermal crepitations and his own movements.

    Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • But Endeavour reported no change; its sensors still de - tected nothing but faint thermal crepitations and his own movements.

    Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • In a very short time this man could detect the slightest change or irregularity in these crepitations, and through the changes was able to tell with wonderful accuracy about how old a person was, and how near they were to illness, and even death.

    Palmistry for All Cheiro

  • Experiments were made as to these vibrations, and it was proved that, after a little study, one could distinctly detect and recognise the crepitations _in relation to each individual_.

    Palmistry for All Cheiro

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