title: Normal rectal, auditory canal, sublingual and axillary temperatures in elderly afebrile patients in a warm environment.
abstract: Fifty hospital inpatients were selected, who, on the basis of their history and on clinical and laboratory findings, were believed not to have a febrile illness. Body temperature was measured simultaneously at four sites, in order to compile a normal range of temperature at each site for patients under these conditions. The observed range of rectal temperature was 36.7-37.5 degrees C, auditory canal temperature 36.4-37.2 degrees C, sublingual temperature 36.2-37.0 degrees C, and axillary temperature 35.5-37.0 degrees C.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Edgware General Hospital, Middlesex.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Darowski
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Weinberg
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001365:Axilla; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology*; D004423:Ear; D006760:Hospitalization; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009055:Mouth; D012007:Rectum; D013821:Thermometers