CREPITATION RALE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale; associated with tuberculosis and pneumonia and congestive heart failure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("crepitation rale" is a kind of...):

rale; rattle; rattling (a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders))

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

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