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
   - clinical thermometer

Derived forms: mercury-in-glass clinical thermometers

Type of: mercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer

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