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Definition of Tertian

1. Adjective. Relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day. "Tertian fever"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds. "A tertian tonal system"

Definition of Tertian

1. a. Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

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

Definition of Tertian

1. Adjective. Of a fever, characterised by paroxysms every third day. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune. ¹

3. Noun. A tertian fever. ¹

4. Noun. The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tertian

1. a recurrent fever [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tertian

1. Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. Origin: L. Tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce. 1. A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. 2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun. Origin: L. Tertiana (sc. Febris): cf. OF. Tertiane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tertian

terskite tersulfide tersulphide tersulphides tersulphuret tersulphurets tert- tert-butyl alcohol tert-butyloxycarbonyl tertbutyl

terthiophene terthiophenes tertia tertial tertials tertian (current term) tertian fever tertian malaria tertian parasite tertians

tertiaries tertiarily tertiarisation tertiarism tertiarization tertiary tertiary-level education tertiary alcohol tertiary alcohols tertiary amine

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