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crepitation

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crepitation [‚krep·ə′tā·shən]
(medicine)
A noise produced by the rubbing of fractured ends of bones, by cracking joints, and by pressure upon tissues containing abnormal amounts of air, as in cellular emphysema.


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Two or three students listened again to recognise the murmur or the crepitation which the physician described, and then the man was told to put on his clothes.
 
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