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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

tertianus

, from

tertius

the third. See

(Med.)

Occurring every third day;

as, a

tertian

fever

Noun.

[L.

tertiana

(sc.

febris

): cf. OF.

tertiane

(Med.)

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

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

Adj.

[L. tertianus, from tertius, third.]

Occurring every other day; as a tertian fever.

Noun.

A disease or fever whose paroxysms return every other day; an intermittent occurring after intervals of about forty eight hours.

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