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Meanings of crepitation in English

Portuguese
creptação

The sharp sound of snapping noises.

creptação
Usage of crepitation in English
1
He spoke of dulness and crepitation, and the effects of the African air.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
2
Yet, in spite of this precautionary crepitation, he salutes Jove with constricted buttocks.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
3
Passive movement of the phalanges in all directions is practised in order to produce crepitation.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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There is one, however, which, in a majority of cases, will not fail-itis crepitation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
5
When rotation of the parts does not occasion crepitation, gentle flexion and extension may do so.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
6
However, unless undue swelling exists, the exact location of the crepitation is recognized without serious difficulty.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
7
The crepitation was steadily rising to a crescendo.
The water room
8
The crepitation ceased, then recommenced, and she perceived that it coincided with the intake of his breath.
The Old Wives' Tale
9
His rough, spatulate thumb rasped along it, drawing from it the crepitation that proves an acute edge.
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
10
On manipulating the pastern slight crepitation could be discovered, and there was abnormal mobility in the corono-pedal articulation.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
11
When the fracture is complete it will be marked by local deformity, mobility of the fragments, and crepitation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
12
He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane.
Lord of the Flies
13
This is crepitation, or the peculiar effect which is produced by the friction of the fractured surfaces one against another.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
14
The crepitation is the result of the action of a powerful magnetic pole upon luminous electric jets in its immediate neighborhood.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 / A Maga...
15
Usually, luxation and fracture may be differentiated in that there is no crepitation in luxation and more or less crepitation exists in fracture.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle.
The Invisible Man
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Portuguese
creptação
Crepitation through the time