MERCURY-IN-GLASS CLINICAL THERMOMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer mean? 

• MERCURY-IN-GLASS CLINICAL THERMOMETER (noun)
  The noun MERCURY-IN-GLASS CLINICAL THERMOMETER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MERCURY-IN-GLASS CLINICAL THERMOMETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERCURY-IN-GLASS CLINICAL THERMOMETER (noun)

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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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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clinical thermometer; mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer

Hypernyms ("mercury-in-glass 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)