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tertian

[ tur-shuhn ]

adjective

  1. Pathology. (of a malarial fever, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every other day.


noun

  1. Pathology. a tertian fever.
  2. a Jesuit during the period of tertianship.

tertian

/ ˈɜːʃə /

adjective

  1. (of a fever or the symptoms of a disease, esp malaria) occurring every other day
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a tertian fever or symptoms
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲ·ٱt adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tertian1

1325–75; Middle English terciane < Latin ( febris ) ٱپԲ tertian (fever), equivalent to terti ( us ) third + -Բ, feminine of -Գܲ -an
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tertian1

C14: from Latin febris ٱپԲ fever occurring every third day, reckoned inclusively, from tertius third
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Statistics gathered from a great many sources and relating to many countries and climates indicate that quotidian intermittents are more common than tertian.

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A certain Person, who purposely sunned himself for a considerable Time, in the clear Day of an intermitting tertian Fever, underwent the Assault of an Apoplexy, which carried him off the following Day.

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A man about forty years old had in the spring a tertian fever, for which he took too small a quantity of bark, so that the returns of it were weakened without being removed.

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A tailor, 30 years of age, had moved to the lower part of the city and contracted a tertian intermittent.

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Two, the so-called benign fevers, are intermittent; namely, tertian and quartan fever, in which the fever recurs every second and third day respectively.

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