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tertian

adjective as in third

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It therefore furnishes the basis of classification of simple intermittents into the following forms: quotidian, tertian, and quartan.

A certain Person, who purposely sunned himself for a considerable Time, in the clear Day of an intermitting tertian Fever, underwent the Assault of an Apoplexy, which carried him off the following Day.

A man about forty years old had in the spring a tertian fever, for which he took too small a quantity of bark, so that the returns of it were weakened without being removed.

A tailor, 30 years of age, had moved to the lower part of the city and contracted a tertian intermittent.

Two, the so-called benign fevers, are intermittent; namely, tertian and quartan fever, in which the fever recurs every second and third day respectively.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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