HyperDic: mercury-in-glass_clinical_thermometer

English > 1 sense of the expression mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer:
NOUNartifactmercury-in-glass clinical thermometer, clinical thermometera mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body
English > mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
MeaningA 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.
Synonymclinical thermometer
Broadermercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometerthermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees ... / degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit
Spanishtermómetro clínico

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