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CLINICAL THERMOMETER
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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)
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