Crackle vs Rale - What's the difference?
crackle | rale |
A fizzing, popping sound.
(pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
(physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
To make a fizzing, popping sound.
* Dryden
(medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
* 1840 , CM Billard, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants , page 416:
* 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
* 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
Crackle is a see also of rale.
As nouns the difference between crackle and rale
is that crackle is a fizzing, popping sound while rale is (medicine|now chiefly in plural) an abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.As a verb crackle
is to make a fizzing, popping sound.crackle
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cracklewareVerb
(crackl)- a crackling fire
- the unknown ice that crackles underneath them
Derived terms
* cracklingAnagrams
* * English onomatopoeiasrale
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(rales)Noun
(en noun)- Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.
- If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle ’ he would not be alarmed.
- But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale .
