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ter·tian  audio  (tūrshn) KEY  

ADJECTIVE:
Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day: a tertian fever.
NOUN:
Pathology
A tertian fever, such as vivax malaria.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English terciane, tertian fever, from Latin (febris) tertina, (fever) of the third (day), from tertius, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots


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