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clinical thermometer
noun
- a small thermometer used to measure body temperature.
clinical thermometer
noun
- a finely calibrated thermometer for determining the temperature of the body, usually placed under the tongue, in the armpit, or in the rectum
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clinical thermometer1
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Example Sentences
Introduce the bulb of an ordinary clinical thermometer, well greased with vaseline, just within the sphincter ani.
Of course the Scout should learn to read the little clinical thermometer, and one should be carried in the trail kit.
He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.
As a physician he kept a clinical thermometer, and on several occasions ascertained that he had some temperature.
In one, where we stopped for lunch, I put a clinical thermometer for a moment against my coat sleeve.
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