Velcro-like crackles

Velcro™-like crackles

A popular term for dry or fine crackles—fancifully likened to the sound of a Velcro closure being opened—which are heard posterolaterally at the lung bases and associated with interstitial lung disease.

Velcro-like crackles

Pulmonology A popular term for dry or fine crackles–fancifully likened to the sound of a Velcro closure being opened–heard posterolaterally at the lung bases and associated with interstitial lung disease