a. Med. and Path. [f. L. crepitus (see next) + -OUS.] Of the nature of, or such as to produce, crepitus.
1822–34. Good, Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 122. That crepitous dilatation of the pulmonary cells, so strongly marked in infancy.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 604/1. The structure of the lungs is more flabby and less crepitous than natural.
