Dictionary   FastHealth  Email This!

 


clinical thermometer

n :  a thermometer for measuring body temperature that has a constriction in the tube where the column of liquid breaks when the temperature drops from its maximum and that continues to indicate the maximum temperature by the part of the column above the constriction until reset by shaking - called also fever thermometer  .
 
 

 
Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.  © 1997-2024.







               



               



Monroe County Hospital (Forsyth, Georgia - Monroe County)