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2. Medical thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A medical thermometer or clinical thermometer is a device used for measuring the body temperature of a human or other animal. The tip of the thermometer is inserted into the mouth under the tongue (oral or sub-lingual temperature), under the armpit (axillary temperature), into the rectum via the anus (rectal temperature), into the ear (tympanic temperature), or on the forehead (temporal ...

3. Temperature measurement - Wikipedia

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   A medical/clinical thermometer showing the temperature of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) Temperature measurement (also known as thermometry ) describes the process of measuring a current temperature for immediate or later evaluation.

4. Thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A medical mercury-in-glass maximum thermometer. An alcohol thermometer. Thermometer with Fahrenheit (symbol °F) and Celsius (symbol °C) units. In 1714, scientist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented a reliable thermometer, using mercury instead of alcohol and water mixtures.

5. Rectal thermometry - Wikipedia

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   The precise history of rectal thermometry is largely unknown, but medical thermometers have long been made in a tube shape that fits into the anus. Medical literature shows the practice dating back to at least the 18th century, and it is probable that rectal thermometry was thought to be a safer alternative to oral temperature-taking, due to the use of mercury and other toxic chemicals in ...

6. Category:Thermometers - Wikipedia

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7. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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   Measuring instruments in fiction: Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax contemplating thermometers, barometers, clocks, etc. in Jules Verne's 1869-1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Fun measuring instruments: a Love Meter and strength tester machine at a Framingham, Massachusetts rest stop.