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adj. Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day: a tertian fever.

n. Pathology A tertian fever, such as vivax malaria.

adj. Of a fever, characterised by paroxysms every third day.

adj. Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.

n. A tertian fever.

n. The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun.

adj. Occurring every third day.

n. A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

n. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

Occurring every second day: as, a tertian fever.

n. A fever or other disease whose paroxysms return after a period of two days, or on the third day, reckoning both days of consecutive occurrence; an intermittent whose paroxysms occur after intervals of about forty-eight hours.

n. In organ-building, a stop consisting of a tierce and a larigot combined.

n. A measure of 84 gallons, the third part of a tun.

n. A curve of the third order.

adj. relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day

adj. of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds

"Cinchona bark had long been used by indigenous people as a remedy for fevers, and at the end of the seventeenth century, a British physician, in one of the earliest controlled studies of a drug, proved that its effect was unique to what was then known as tertian fever."

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