crepitusn.
/ˈkrɛpɪtəs/ 1. Medicine and Pathology. = crepitation n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun]
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1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) i. xxx. 275 Great unnecessary pain, [has] frequently been occasioned by the custom of feeling for a crepitus, and moving the [fractured] limb about..in order to produce it.
1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 115 There is crepitus or rattling in the breathing.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Crepitus, the crackling noise occasioned by pressing a part of the body when air is collected in the cellular tissue.
2. The breaking of wind: usually crepitus ventris.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > [noun]
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1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Crepitus, term for the discharge upwards, or rejection downwards, of gas or flatus from the stomach and bowels.
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