CREPITUS


Meaning of CREPITUS in English

[ 'krɛpɪtəs ]

■ 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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