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mercury thermometer vs clinical thermometer

clinical thermometer vs mercury thermometer

mercury thermometer and clinical thermometer both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
mercury thermometer Yes No No No
clinical thermometer Yes No No No
As nouns, clinical thermometer is a hyponym of mercury thermometer; that is, clinical thermometer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mercury thermometer:
  • mercury 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
  • 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
Other hyponyms of mercury thermometer include Beckman thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer.
mercury thermometer (noun) clinical thermometer (noun)
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 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
Difference between mercury thermometer and clinical thermometer

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