crepitus


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crepitus /ˈkrɛpɪtəs/
noun Medicine a grating sound or sensation produced by friction between bone and cartilage or the fractured parts of a bone.

■ the production of rattling sounds in the lungs.

– origin C19: from L., from crepare ‘rattle’.
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