crepitation

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It was a deeply flavored specimen, but lacked the crepitation of those breaded in sharp shards of panko.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022

He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Differential Diagnosis.—In making examination of these cases, one can exclude fracture by absence of crepitation and usually, also, swelling is absent in radial paralysis.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

His rough, spatulate thumb rasped along it, drawing from it the crepitation that proves an acute edge.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

The pathognomonic symptom here is recognition of crepitation, but this may be very difficult to recognize in fracture of condyles, and in such instances, a careful examination is necessary.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor