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What is a crepitation?

What is a crepitation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of crepitating or crackling.
  2. 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.
  3. A crepitant rale.
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Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.
Its wings were closed and the inferior ones were rubbing against each other in a curious, circular motion — possibly producing some small, blithe crepitation a human ear could not catch.
The world all dead silence, save when, from far down below us in the woods, comes up the crepitation of the little wooden drum that beats to church.
This is crepitation, or the peculiar effect which is produced by the friction of the fractured surfaces one against another.
The thump of a stapler, the snick of a ballpoint, the rattle of paper, the bass crepitation of the mail cart against the carpet.
The results of physical examination were significant for bilateral basal diffuse rhonchi and crepitation.

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