(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).
Crepitus
Definition:
(n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
(n.) Same as Crepitation, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Physical signs were more helpful in diagnosis and it is considered that the presence of an effusion, quadriceps wasting, and patello-femoral crepitus are the most important clinical findings in the diagnosis of chondromalacia patellae.
(2) This syndrome, also known as chondromalacia patellae, is characterised by pain and crepitus around the patella during activities that require flexion of the knee under loading, for example, climbing stairs.
(3) The diagnosis can be made on the basis of a pathogonomic metallic crepitus.
(4) Degenerative arthritis of the pisotriquetral joint was diagnosed by point tenderness over the pisiform and crepitus elicited by lateral movement of the pisiform on the triquetrum.
(5) Functional assessment (lameness, hock range of motion, joint stability, joint crepitus, and mid-femoral muscle circumference) was completed before surgery and at postoperative weeks 2 through 20.
(6) Prevalence proved significantly high, particularly as regards joint crepitus, reduced mandibular mobility, pain in the masticatory muscles and macroglossia.
(7) The conditions investigated were:- Cavitation finger clicks; Trigger finger; normal crepitus and the crepitus of de Quervain's tenosynovitis.
(8) Edema extending beyond the area of erythema, skin vesicles, crepitus or air in the subcutaneous tissues, and absence of lymphangitis and lymphadenitis are markers of necrotizing infections, particularly when they occur in patients with serious underlying disease.
(9) A young male sustained a wound on the lateral aspect of the right thigh, presenting 24 hours later with subcutaneous crepitus over the thigh.
(10) The symptoms included a waddling gait and crepitus, pain, and tenderness over the symphysis pubis.
(11) This test, however, does not quantify or determine the cause of the crepitus.
(12) This rare but distinct entity resembles clostridial myonecrosis except that it lasts slightly longer and does not involve gaseous crepitus.
(13) Comparing the three groups on the basis of the data of power spectrum analysis of frequencies using FFT, the spectrum of frequencies of the crepitus group was the highest and broadest, and that of control group was the lowest.
(14) Clinical indications for imaging included joint pain, restricted joint motion, crepitus, preauricular swelling, regional lymphadenopathy, malocclusion either acquired or changed since implant surgery, and facial deformity.
(15) The commonest clinical findings were: sound from the TMJ (crepitus or grating noise), impaired mandibular mobility, tenderness to palpation of the masticatory muscles.
(16) The most common signs were alterations in the quality of mandibular movement, pain on muscle palpation and joint crepitus.
(17) Risk factors are grouped under the categories of activity level, symptoms, clinical laxity, meniscal damage, lower limb alignment, tibiofemoral crepitus, patellofemoral factors, rehabilitation, and patient compliance.
(18) The patients presented at an average of 4 months postoperatively with a clinical syndrome of loss of extension associated with pain at terminal extension, crepitus, and grinding with attempted extension beyond their limit.
(19) These objective signs of temporomandibular joint dysfunction did not correlate statistically with maximum opening of the mouth, age, taking of analesics or tranquilizers, headache or dizzy spells, crepitus, and the patients dental condition.
(20) Occipital pain, occipital trigger points, crepitus in the occipital region, and a rotational head tilt deformity (in 13 patients, usually associated with collapse of 1 of the lateral masses [facets]), were the major features of this distinctive syndrome.