CLINICAL THERMOMETER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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 temperature

Synonyms:

clinical thermometer; mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("clinical thermometer" is a kind of...):

mercury-in-glass thermometer; mercury 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)

Credits