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Definition of: tertian
(tûr′shən) adjective
Recurring every third day, reckoned inclusively, hence every alternate day.
—noun Pathol. A disease, the paroxysms of which return every other day; a tertian fever. [<L (febris) tertiana tertian (fever) <tertius third]
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