Say you wake up in Vail and itâs snowing hard. If the temperature at the base is 20Â°F and the summit is about 3,000 feet higher, then you could estimate the temperature at the top would be about 10Â°F (3,000 feet elevation change at 3.3Â°F per 1,000 feet equals about 10Â°F temperature decrease).
Crepitus is the medical term for cracking or popping sound in a joint such as the knee. Learn about crepitus pain symptoms and treatment in this article.
2 a sound or feel that resembles the crackling noise heard when rubbing hair between the fingers or throwing salt on an open fire. Crepitus is associated with gas gangrene, rubbing of bone fragments, air in superficial tissues, or crackles of a consolidated area of the lung in pneumonia.