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How do you take your temperature with a clinical thermometer?
Oral method (in the mouth)
- Carefully place the tip of the thermometer under your child’s tongue.
- With your child’s mouth closed, leave the thermometer in place for about 1 minute until you hear the “beep”
- Remove the thermometer and read the temperature.
How do you measure a thermometer?
Place the thermometer tip under the tongue. Hold the thermometer in the same spot for about 40 seconds. Readings will continue to increase and the F (or C) symbol will flash during measurement. Usually, the thermometer will make a beeping noise when the final reading is done (usually about 30 seconds).
How do you use a clinical thermometer in English?
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 temperature).
Where do you take your temperature?
How do I take my temperature to check for a fever?
- Mouth: Place the probe under the tongue and close the mouth.
- Rectum: Place petroleum jelly on the bulb of a rectal thermometer.
- Armpit: Place the thermometer in the armpit.
- Ear: Pull the top of the earlobe up and back.
How do you take a temperature?
How do I take a temperature?
- Clean the tip with cold water and soap, then rinse it.
- Turn the thermometer on.
- Put the tip under your tongue, towards the back of your mouth.
- Close your lips around the thermometer.
- Wait until it beeps or flashes.
- Check the temperature on the display.
What do you mean by a clinical thermometer?
: a thermometer for measuring body temperature that has a constriction in the tube above the bulb preventing movement of the column of liquid downward once it has reached its maximum temperature so that it continues to indicate the maximum temperature until the liquid is shaken back down into the bulb.
How does a clinical thermometer works?
The thermometer is placed inside the mouth of the patient to measure the body temperature. As the temperature of mercury in the glass bulb rises up due to the heat of the body, mercury expands and it starts to flow through the thin capillary thread at a certain level.