clinical thermometer
a small thermometer used to measure body temperature.
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How to use clinical thermometer in a sentence
Introduce the bulb of an ordinary clinical thermometer, well greased with vaseline, just within the sphincter ani.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry EyreOf course the Scout should learn to read the little clinical thermometer, and one should be carried in the trail kit.
Pluck on the Long Trail | Edwin L. SabinHe took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.
The Secret Places of the Heart | H. G. WellsAs a physician he kept a clinical thermometer, and on several occasions ascertained that he had some temperature.
Atlantis | Gerhart HauptmannIn one, where we stopped for lunch, I put a clinical thermometer for a moment against my coat sleeve.
At the Court of the Amr | John Alfred Gray
British Dictionary definitions for clinical thermometer
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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