Meaning of TERTIAN
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- [adj] of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a tertian tonal system"
- [adj] relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day; "tertian fever"
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\Ter"tian\, a. [L. tertianus, from tertius the third.
See {Tierce}.] (Med.)
Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
\Ter"tian\, n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF.
tertiane.]
1. (Med.) 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.
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