| NOUN | event | crepitation rale | the crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale |
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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. | |
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| Broader | rattle, rattling, rale | 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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