The phrase "armpit temperature" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the measurement of body temperature taken from the armpit, often in medical or health-related contexts.
Example: "The nurse recorded the patient's armpit temperature to monitor for fever."
Alternatives: "axillary temperature" or "underarm temperature".
From 2006 to early 2008, the ILI case definition was identical except for the fever criteria which was set at ≥ 37.5°C armpit temperature.
Read and analyze the armpit temperature measurement.
If the armpit temperature is above 99 °F (37 °C), administer a rectal temperature test to ensure accuracy.
Small children, especially those under 90 days of age, should always be administered administered an armpit temperature reading first to avoid rectal injury if they can't hold still.
In a precomputer tour de force of data collection and analysis, Dr. Wunderlich tabulated over a million axillary (armpit) temperatures for 25,000 patients and arrived at 98.6° F as the average.
Armpit temperatures are less accurate.[18].[18]
There are also many relatively inexpensive infrared thermometers that save parents and their babies from the discomfort of armpit or rectal temperature readings.
Commonly, the attending clinicians asked questions and prescribed drugs without even touching the child as expressed in the quote below: "There used to be that thing they put in your mouth or armpit, for checking temperature.
The visit started out much like the others; I alerted a nurse to my presence, delivered a cooler full of breast milk, changed an impossibly small diaper (filled with an impossibly large amount of feces), and popped the thermometer under Blake's armpit to take her temperature.
Also, you can heat a sock in the microwave for about a minute, put it under your armpit and measure your temperature.
The minute your stomach goes queasy, you throw up a little in your mouth, and in my case, the armpits heat to the temperature of molten lava, I know I've got to act fast, getting out in front of the screw-up.
