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CREPITATION RALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale; associated with tuberculosis and pneumonia and congestive heart failure
Classified under:
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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