Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crepitation_rale

1 sense of crepitation rale

Sense 1
crepitation rale -- (the crackling sound heard on auscultation when patients with respiratory diseases inhale; associated with tuberculosis and pneumonia and congestive heart failure)
       => rattle, rattling, rale -- (a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle")
       => symptom -- ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)