Programs that pay for or provide medical thermometers that are used to measure and indicate a person's temperature. Options include regular digital thermometers that can be used in the mouth, armpit or rectum, and employ electronic heat sensors to record body temperature; digital ear thermometers, also called tympanic thermometers, which use an infrared ray to measure the temperature inside the ear canal; digital pacifier thermometers for use with young children who are accustomed to pacifiers; temporal artery thermometers (often sold as "forehead thermometers") that use an infrared scanner to measure the temperature of the temporal artery in the forehead; and mercury thermometers which use mercury encased in glass to measure body temperature. Mercury thermometers are no longer recommended because they can break and allow toxic mercury to escape.
No programs.