| NOUN | artifact | clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body |
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| 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. | |
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| Synonym | mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | |
| Broader | mercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees ... / degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit |
| Spanish | termómetro clínico | |
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