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Crepitation or a grinding, rubbing sound due to the movement of the ends of the broken bones on one another occurs when the part is moved or manipulated with the hands.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Crepitation is readily detected, if pain and swelling is not too great to prevent passive movement of the member.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Crepitation is readily detected and frequently these fractures are of the compound-comminuted variety.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Crepitation, and in some cases fissures, may be easily detected.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Crepitation may be detected by manipulating the parts, and in some instances of fracture of the olecranon, there occurs marked displacement of the broken portions of the bone.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Crepitation is absent, because the hip muscles draw away the upper part of the bone.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Crepitation is readily felt with the hand upon the shoulder when the leg is moved.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Crepitation may in some cases be discerned by rectal examination, with one hand resting over the coxo-femoral (hip) articulation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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"I was to have gone home to-day: but Worthington wishes me to stay, at any rate, till the week's end, by which time he thinks to remove what he calls 'a Crepitation 'in one lung, by help of the Medicine which proved its power on the mahogany.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846
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