crepitation
Example Sentences
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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
When the fracture is complete it will be marked by local deformity, mobility of the fragments, and crepitation.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
White wreathings drifted up the fields from the sullen sea; the sky was an unbroken gray deadness shedding pin-point moisture that was now and then blown against the panes with a crepitation of despair.
From The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
In fact, a sub-periosteal fracture may exist for several days or a week or more and then, with subsequent fracture of the periosteum, crepitation and abnormal mobility of the member are to be recognized.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
