noun
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A tertian fever.
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The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun.
adjective
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(of a fever) Characterised by paroxysms recurring every other day (that is, every third day by inclusive reckoning).
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Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.
Examples of tertian in a Sentence
Three distinct parasites, corresponding with the tertian,.
He had a serious love affair about this time, which was broken off on the very eve of marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years.
The boy had the disease for three years, ending with tertian ague.
Another paroxysm begins at or near the same hour next day (quotidian ague), which results from a double tertian infection, or the interval may be fortyeight hours (tertian ague), or seventy-two hours (quartan ague).
Plasmodium ovale causes a rare form of the disease which is similar to benign tertian malaria.
It is the general rule, with frequent exceptions, that the quotidian paroxysm comes on in the morning, the tertian about noon, and the quartan in the afternoon.
Quotidian intermittent is on the whole more common than tertian in hot countries; elsewhere the tertian is the usual type, and quartan is only occasional.