1.   His life story bristles with less-than-sensitive remarks about personal hygiene, chihuahuas, babies and rectal thermometers.

2.   The temperature of the animals was monitored using a rectal thermometer with a digital read out.

3.   A rectal thermometer.

4.   From splinting broken bones to inserting rectal thermometers, from preventing poisoning to performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the group was poised to do whatever necessary for their pets.

5.   It was their technical people who ascertained the temperature of the porridge, although they now admit they did it with a rectal thermometer.

6.   Rommel and his team developed a long rectal thermometer that took electronic readings at many different locations along the length of the colon.

7.   Teaching your dog to accept a rectal thermometer is a simple task, by comparison.

8.   The probe was a similar but more sophisticated version of the rectal thermometer that veterinarians use to take dolphin temperatures.

9.   Why is there a rectal thermometer in my sewing basket?

10.   Rectal thermometers have long been considered the gold standard for accurate temperature-taking in infants, though they can cause discomfort and, less commonly, rectal injury.