cracking joints

And with cracking joints the fat baron plumped down upon his marrow bones.

Bolivar exited the robot quickly and did some deep knee bends to the accompaniment of cracking joints.

Releasing his fingers, he stretched carefully, taking care for his ruined shoulder, with a rattle of cracking joints at the end.

Cracking joints consist of the action of moving joints to the point of producing popping or cracking sounds.

Cracking Joints Most Likely Causes The fluid around a joint contains a variety of gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen.

So we began, and the first time I asked them to touch the floor right in front of their toes, I heard a chorus of groans and cracking joints.

Crepiated: Not a dictionary word, but "crepiation" means: A noise produced by the rubbing of fractured ends of bones, by cracking joints, and by pressure upon tissues containing abnormal amounts of air.

The physical mechanism behind the popping or cracking sound heard when cracking joints such as knuckles is still uncertain, although it is widely believed to be caused by synovial fluid filling the vacuum left by the joint's displacement.

All this talk of cracking joints and other fraudulent tricks was mid-Victorian in its ignorance, and as to the grandmother talking through the leg of a table he, the speaker, could not recognize it as a fair description of Spiritualistic phenomena.

ON A LATE SATURDAY afternoon in summer, just before the ringing of Angelus, Tam of the Wealdway straightened from the furrows in his plowed strip of Oldfield and stretched his cracking joints.