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crepitation
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It was a deeply flavored specimen, but lacked the crepitation of those breaded in sharp shards of panko.
As impressive as Le Pétomane’s feats sound, his trouser coughs wouldn’t have gotten him to the finals of the Crepitation Contest, a 1946 blowfest otherwise known as Battle at Thunderblow.
He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane.
When the affection is confined to the bronchia and pulmonary parenchyma, there are the usual signs of bronchitis, disturbed breathing, with hard, soft, mucous, or dry husky cough, and blowing, mucous or sibilant r�le, at points crepitation, and at others some diminution of murmur and resonance.
Such attacks may last but a few days, but in several of our cases there was painful swelling of the knees, wrists, and fingers which persisted for several weeks after the fever, being attended with slight crepitation on motion, and altogether behaving like subacute rheumatism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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