(v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
(n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
(n.) A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
(n.) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
(2) Reasons for the discrepancies include the fact that there are no absolute criteria for crackles and that rapidly occurring crackles are difficult to count by ear.
(3) When end-expiratory Ptp was set constant between 15 and 20 cmH2O and end-expiratory Ptp was gradually reduced from 5 cmH2O to -15 or -20 cmH2O in a breath-by-breath manner, crackles were produced in the cycles in which end-expiratory Ptp fell below -1 to 1 cmH2O.
(4) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(5) With more echoes of Scotland, in both places, people on the ground say that local debate is crackling with energy.
(6) The exam hall crackles with a hushed excitement as the papers for our last ever exam are taken in.
(7) In addition, this group of patients showed a significant correlation between the number of expiratory crackles and the reduction in predicted transfer factor, suggesting that expiratory crackles may be a clinical indicator of the severity of disease in fibrosing alveolitis.
(8) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(9) In workers exposed to asbestos, crackles correlated with exposure.
(10) The other passengers aren't much trouble, beyond the occasional loud phone call or crackling headphones.
(11) Presenting findings included crackles, haemoptysis, and hypotension.
(12) It was a phenomenal atmosphere, it was absolutely crackling.
(13) These cases involved elderly patients with progressive dyspnea and nonproductive cough, bilateral dry crackling rales, bilateral interstitial infiltrates evident on a chest roentgenogram, and restrictive findings on pulmonary function testing.
(14) It sounds like you're at sea, I say, between the beeps and crackles.
(15) This filter extracts an impulsive signal, which is a small-width wave, and its succeeding waves; such wave form is typical of that of crackles.
(16) The crowd threw their arms in the air as one, and drowned out the crackle of fireworks overhead with their screams of approval.
(17) Crackles are commonly used in clinical decision-making, and in certain diseases the number of crackles reflects the severity of the illness.
(18) Crackling lung sounds are associated with many pulmonary diseases.
(19) Never, ever overtly refer to the electricity crackling between the two of you.
(20) The method is validated by studying the crackles of 20 adult patients; 10 with fibrosing alveolitis (FA) and 10 with bronchiectasis (BE).
Crepitate
Definition:
(v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results implied that crepitation is a rather unreliable sign of arthrosis.
(2) With the clinical method used for separation of patients it was found that the clicking of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) was more common among myogenous patients (P less than 0.05); crepitation was more common among arthrogenous patients (P less than 0.01), as was limited mouth opening (P less than 0.05) and deviation on opening (P less than 0.05).
(3) All the children had tachypnoea at rest and bilateral crepitations in the absence of fever.
(4) Hyperinflation of the chest, widespread crepitations and rhonchi were persistent clinical features.
(5) Examples are reported of clinical cases confirming the difficulties of diagnosis of recurring form of thromboembolism of the minor pulmonary artery branches and the following leading signs of the disease are singled out: elevation of the temperature, tachy- and orthopnea, prolonged retrosternal pain, crepitation and moist rales over the lungs, inversion of the T-wave and depression of the ST segment in the right thoracic leads.
(6) Conservative management of Achilles tendon pain may be unrewarding except in acute crepitating peritendinitis.
(7) After receiving cow's milk containing formula he presented with fever, tachypnea, diffuse rales and crepitations over both lungs.
(8) The percentage of patients without crepitation increased from 15% to 54% by final follow-up.
(9) We made a retrospective analysis of 213 patients who underwent Swan-Ganz catheterization within 24 hours of AMI and compared precatheter CHF signs (dyspnoea, lung crepitations and x-ray appearance) with initial pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP).
(10) There were no differences between groups in joint space narrowing, crepitation, joint stability, or symptomatic osteoarthritis.
(11) No change occurred in the single breath CO transfer factor nor were crepitations heard over the lung fields which remained normal on chest X-ray.
(12) The objective symptoms of gonarthrosis, crepitations and restricted movements in the first place, were present in men and women alike.
(13) The parameters tested were: pain (under different conditions), crepitation, joint swelling, circumference of joint, extent of motility and walking time over 10 meters.
(14) In spite of this treatment, for 6 months no improvement was obtained and the reciprocal clicking changed into crepitation.
(15) No clinical sign or symptom was found to be specific of rheumatoid involvement although joint crepitation was most frequently found in rheumatic patients (p less than 0.001).
(16) At inclusion, the fever was greater than 39 degrees C in 56% of patients, 58% had localized crepitations at the chest auscultation.
(17) TM joint sounds were noted in 47 patients, including reciprocal clicking in 35 patients and crepitation in 12 patients.
(18) This case emphasizes that nonclostridial crepitant cellulitis is potentially severe and that the presence of myonecrosis is an indication for early radical surgery.
(19) The patients with TMJ crepitation, which were considered to have TMJ osteoarthrosis, were older and reported a higher frequency of grating sound from the TMJ than the patients in the reference group.
(20) The clinical findings in 20 patients with TMJ-crepitation (E1-group) and 19 patients with TMJ palpatory tenderness (E2-group) have been compared with the findings in 29 other patients with mandibular dysfunction (R-group).