tertian
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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the child it generally takes the form of tertian ague, that is to say the attack recurs every second day; one day of freedom intervening between two attacks.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
