clinical thermometer

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   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

   Synonymsmercury-in-glass clinical thermometer

   Broadermercury thermometer

Questions about clinical thermometer

What does clinical thermometer mean?

clinical thermometer means "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".

What is another word for clinical thermometer?

Close synonyms include mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clinical thermometer a common word?

clinical thermometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.