Medical Definition of thermometer. : an instrument for determining temperature that usually consists either of a device providing a digital readout or of a glass bulb attached to a fine tube of glass with a numbered scale and containing a liquid (as mercury or colored alcohol) that is sealed in and rises and falls with changes of temperature.
Printable version. Casino denies Dion husband losses. Celine Dion and Rene Angelil renewed their wedding vows at the casino. Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas has taken the unusual step of releasing details of the gambling losses of Celine Dion's husband and manager.
Problem gambling (or ludomania, but usually referred to as  gambling addiction ) is an urge to gamble continuously despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. Problem gambling is often defined by whether harm is experienced by the gambler or others, rather than by the gambler's behavior.n the United States, the percentage of pathological gamblers was 0.6 percent, and the percentage of problem gamblers was 2.3 percent in 2008. Studies commissioned by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission Act has shown the prevalence rate ranges from 0.1 percent to 0.6 percent.