Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crackling noise; crepitation. Specifically
- noun The sound heard or grating sensation felt when the fractured ends of a broken bone are rubbed against each other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
- noun Same as
crepitation , 2.
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- noun medicine
Grating ,crackling orpopping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints. - noun
crepitation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do not go hunting for symptoms of fracture (such as the false point of motion or the sound "crepitus") just to be sure.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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(My father, a retired general practitioner, can still tell as much from palpating a patient's abdomen or listening carefully for crepitus while articulating a patient's sore knee than most modern internists can from reading an MRI or CT scan.)
The Cost of Health Care -- in Live Chickens Jr. M.S. Bellows 2010
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Less synthesizer, more sewer, the Atlantic — an ocean of filth in its own right, stepping-stone-less, lily-white-launching-pad welcome mat for pallid oppressor-rapists — has dipped its toes in a curdled consommé of croaking crepitus?
Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Regenerative Animal Blogging 2007
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The Badawi who eructates as a civility, has a mortal hatred to a crepitus ventris; and were a by-stander to laugh at its accidental occurrence, he would at once be cut down as a “pundonor.”
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_ -- Separation of the spinous processes was often indicated by slight deformity, either evident or palpable, local pain, tenderness, mobility, and crepitus.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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When the os corona alone is fractured then diagnosis is extremely difficult, the smallness of the bone and the comparative rigidity of the parts rendering manipulation almost useless, and effectually preventing the obtaining of crepitus.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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No displacement upwards of the femur resulted; but external rotation was accompanied by crepitus.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Their manipulation gives to the touch a sickening, grating sound -- in other words, we have crepitus.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Secondly, abnormal mobility was usually strongly marked, and this sometimes without very definite crepitus, as a result of the fine nature of the comminution and the displacement of the small fragments.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Free comminution and absolute solution of continuity were also less common than in the fractures accompanying transverse wounds; hence pain from rubbing of the fragments on inspiratory movement or palpation was more common, and crepitus, either on auscultation or palpation, was more often met with.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
chained_bear commented on the word crepitus
"It seemed to me an ordinary distal radius-ulna transverse fracture with some lateral displacement effectively reduced: the kind of break you would expect from a fall... When did it take place?"
"Three weeks ago; and it is not yet knit, nor beginning to knit. The ends are closely approximated—there is a crepitus—but there is no union."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 225
March 7, 2008
joannasephine commented on the word crepitus
The grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints when two rough surfaces in the human body come into contact; sound and senseation produced in soft tissues when gas is introduced into an area where it normally isn't present; the crackling wheezing sounds produced by lung conditions; the noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
April 3, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word crepitus
See also crepitation.
October 16, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word crepitus
JM likes to hear snap, crepitus, pop - but wonders should it be snap, crepitate, pop?
March 10, 2010