Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mercury-in-glass_clinical_thermometer

1 sense of mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer

Sense 1
clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer -- (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)
       => 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 Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube)