The grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints when two rough surfaces in the human body come into contact; sound and senseation produced in soft tissues when gas is introduced into an area where it normally isn't present; the crackling wheezing sounds produced by lung conditions; the noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
"It seemed to me an ordinary distalradius-ulnatransverse fracture with some lateral displacement effectively reduced: the kind of break you would expect from a fall... When did it take place?"
"Three weeks ago; and it is not yet knit, nor beginning to knit. The ends are closely approximated—there is a crepitus—but there is no union." --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 225
See also crepitation.
The grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints when two rough surfaces in the human body come into contact; sound and senseation produced in soft tissues when gas is introduced into an area where it normally isn't present; the crackling wheezing sounds produced by lung conditions; the noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
"It seemed to me an ordinary distal radius-ulna transverse fracture with some lateral displacement effectively reduced: the kind of break you would expect from a fall... When did it take place?"
"Three weeks ago; and it is not yet knit, nor beginning to knit. The ends are closely approximated—there is a crepitus—but there is no union."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 225