clinical thermometer

noun

1. a small thermometer used to measure body temperature.

clinical thermometer

noun

1. a finely calibrated thermometer for determining the temperature of the body, usually placed under the tongue, in the armpit, or in the rectum

Word History and Origins

Origin of clinical thermometer¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Introduce the bulb of an ordinary clinical thermometer, well greased with vaseline, just within the sphincter ani.

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Of course the Scout should learn to read the little clinical thermometer, and one should be carried in the trail kit.

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He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.

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As a physician he kept a clinical thermometer, and on several occasions ascertained that he had some temperature.

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In one, where we stopped for lunch, I put a clinical thermometer for a moment against my coat sleeve.

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