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What is another word for Crackles?

Pronunciation: [kɹˈakə͡lz] (IPA)

Crackles are sounds that are produced when there is an obstruction in the airway or when the lungs are filled with fluid. These sounds are usually heard when a person is breathing and are a sign of an underlying medical condition. However, the term 'crackles' can be replaced with several synonyms that could be employed to describe the same sound. Synonyms for crackles include crepitation, rales, wheezes, rhonchi, and crackling. These terms might be more specific to the type of sound or the location where the sound is coming from. Proper use of synonyms can help people understand medical conditions better, and it also helps in accurate communication among healthcare professionals.
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And then the men coming down stairs, half awake and yawning, in their shirt sleeves and their stocking feet, and pushing on their boots and clattering out to the stable, and shouting to the horses that are stamping in their stalls; and then you yoursef busy as Thop's wife laying the cups and saucers, and sending the boys to the well for water, and filling the big crock to the brim, and hanging the kettle on the hook, and setting somebody to blow the fire while the gorse flames and Crackles, and bustling here and bustling there, and stirring yoursef terr'ble, and getting breakfast over, and starting everybody away to his work in the fields-aw, there's nothing like it in the world.
"Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893"
Hall Caine
Another blow-the branch Crackles-there is a crash-it parts from the cliff-it is gone!
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
Then, if you stuff in hemlock into the embers of the fire that you were raking out, till it hums and Crackles under the boiler, it won't be long before you hear the propeller thud thudding at the stern again, and before the long roar of the steam whistle echoes over to the town.
"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
Stephen Leacock

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