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Tertian

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Adjective

1. tertian

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

Example Sentences:
'tertian fever'

2. tertian

of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds

Example Sentences:
'a tertian tonal system'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tertian

see synonyms of tertian
adjective
1. 
(of a fever or the symptoms of a disease, esp malaria) occurring every other day
noun
2. 
a tertian fever or symptoms

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Tertian

see synonyms of tertian
adjective
1. 
occurring every other day so that it happens on the first and third days: usually applied to fever or a disease causing it, esp. any of certain forms of malaria
noun
2. 
a tertian fever or disease

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tertian

see synonyms of tertian
adj.
Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day: a tertian fever.
n.
Medicine
A tertian fever, such as vivax malaria.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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