Crepitant vs Crepitation - What's the difference?
crepitant | crepitation |
crackling; rattling
The act of crepitating or crackling.
* 1923 ,
A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
A crepitant rale.
Crepitation is a related term of crepitant.
As an adjective crepitant
is crackling; rattling.As a noun crepitation is
the act of crepitating or crackling.crepitant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Pneumonia is often characterized by crepitant rales coming from within the patient's chest
crepitation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.