What is difference between fine and basal crepitations?

Answer 1

Crepitations refers to a sound usually heard by medical personnel by listening to the chest (lungs) with a stethoscope. The quality of the sounds may be fine, moist, or coarse. The location where the crepitations are heard may be described as basal, generalized, left-sided, right-sided, anterior, posterior, lateral, etc.

A person could have any combination of the quality and location descriptive terms: i.e. fine basilar crepitations, coarse generalized crepitations, moist left-sided crepitations, etc.