Tertian Definition

tûrshən
adjective
Occurring every other day so that it happens on the first and third days: usually applied to fever or a disease causing it, esp. any of certain forms of malaria.
Webster's New World
noun
A tertian fever or disease.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tertian

Noun

Singular:
tertian
Plural:
tertians

Origin of Tertian

  • Middle English terciane tertian fever from Latin (febris) tertiāna (fever) of the third (day) from tertius third trei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tertian Sentence Examples

  • Three distinct parasites, corresponding with the tertian,.

  • He had a serious love affair about this time, which was broken off on the very eve of marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years.

  • The boy had the disease for three years, ending with tertian ague.

  • Another paroxysm begins at or near the same hour next day (quotidian ague), which results from a double tertian infection, or the interval may be fortyeight hours (tertian ague), or seventy-two hours (quartan ague).

  • Plasmodium ovale causes a rare form of the disease which is similar to benign tertian malaria.

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