clinical thermometernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌklɪn.ɪ.kəl θəˈmɒm.ɪ.tər/us/ˌklɪn.ɪ.kəl θɚˈmɑː.mə.t̬ɚ/a device used for measuring the body temperature of a person or animal
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- 'You haven't sent for a doctor?' she inquired, while she took out her small clinical thermometer.
- He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.
- When did you take his temperature? She drew a little morocco case from her pocket and from that took a clinical thermometer, which she shook up and down, eying the patient meanwhile with a calm, impersonal scrutiny.