crepitation
Noun
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Noun
crepitation
- The act of crepitating or crackling.
- 1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—"Outside"
- Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.
- 1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—"Outside"
- 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.
- A crepitant rale.
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