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tertian
[ tur-shuhn ]
adjective
- Pathology. (of a malarial fever, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every other day.
noun
- Pathology. a tertian fever.
- a Jesuit during the period of tertianship.
tertian
/ ˈ³ÙÉœËʃə²Ô /
adjective
- (of a fever or the symptoms of a disease, esp malaria) occurring every other day
noun
- a tertian fever or symptoms
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ü²ú·³Ù±ð°ùt¾±²¹²Ô adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tertian1
Example Sentences
It therefore furnishes the basis of classification of simple intermittents into the following forms: quotidian, tertian, and quartan.
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.
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.
A tailor, 30 years of age, had moved to the lower part of the city and contracted a tertian intermittent.
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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