| clinical thermometer n. A thermometer used to measure body temperature, especially a small glass thermometer designed with a narrowing above the bulb so that the mercury column stays in position when the instrument is removed from the body. |
clinical thermometer
n
(Medicine) a finely calibrated thermometer for determining the temperature of the body, usually placed under the tongue, in the armpit, or in the rectum
clin′ical thermom′eter
n.
a small thermometer used to measure body temperature.
[1875–80]
Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  clinical thermometer - a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body; graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperaturemercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer - thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube |
Translations
clinical thermometer
n → Fieberthermometer nt
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