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| ter·tian [ túrsh'n ] |
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appearing every other day: describes a fever, especially a malarial fever, with symptoms that appear every other day
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noun (plural ter·tians) |
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tertian fever: a tertian fever or set of symptoms
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| [14th century. < Latin (febris) tertiana "(fever) of the third (day)" < tertius "third"] |
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