(a.) Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.
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).
Crepitation
Definition:
(n.) The act of crepitating or crackling.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A crepitant rale.
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).