He was the only one who could make clinical thermometers.
Sara's got a clinical thermometer up in her room--she used it for something or other when she was doing charity work in New York.
I don't need any clinical thermometer to tell me how I feel!
A clinical thermometer is a thermometer used to measure body temperature.
This was in contrast to the Army medical facilities, which between them had two clinical thermometers and one ophthalmoscope.
However, mercury is a toxic heavy metal, and mercury has only been used in clinical thermometers if protected from breakage of the tube.
The first electronic clinical thermometer, invented in 1954, used a flexible probe that contained a Carboloy thermistor.
He had a sheet of paper, a pencil, and a clinical thermometer upon the coverlet in front of him.
Practically the only tool of his profession that Dr. Reyd had salvaged was a clinical thermometer.
Invention of the clinical thermometer by Thomas Clifford Allbutt.