Oral versus axillary temperatures in human volunteers.
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1990-08-01
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We measured the oral and axillary temperatures of 100 individuals (including 40 females) in the medical wards. Twenty six had fever ranging from 37.3 degrees C to 40.5 degrees C while the rest had normal temperature. Although the oral temperature was higher than axillary temperature in all the cases, there was no correlation between the two; in one case the difference was as high as 1 degrees C. We conclude that while recording temperature the site must be clearly stated, and no attempt must be made to extrapolate the axillary to the oral temperature.
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Agarwal N, Garg RK, Arora RC, Gandhi RK, Kapoor M. Oral versus axillary temperatures in human volunteers. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. 1990 Aug; 38(8): 541