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tertian
Word definitions for tertian in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tertian \Ter"tian\, n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.] (Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. A liquid measure formerly used for ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In music theory , tertian (, "of or concerning thirds") describes any piece , chord , counterpoint etc. constructed from the intervals of ( major and minor ) thirds. An interval such as that between the notes A and C encompasses 3 semitone intervals (A-B-B-C) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day; "tertian fever" of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a tertian tonal system"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a fever, characterised by paroxysms every third day. 2 (context music English) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune. n. 1 A tertian fever. 2 The puncheon, an old wine cask, three of which made a tun. ...
Usage examples of tertian.
The Romans knew that it occurred in different manifestations: quartan and tertian, and a more serious form having no regular rhythmic recurrence of the rigors.
Trader from whom I procured Jesuit Bark that the Indians use a Plant called Gallberry, which rivals the Bark of Cinchona for bitterness and is thought capital for Use in tertian and quartan Fevers.
It might be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return next day.
Many of the sick from the inshore vessels were now aboard the Bellona and other ships of the squadron, most with fevers of one kind or another - tertians, double tertians, remittents and quartans for the most part, though there were three cases of the yellow jack - and very soon Dr Maturin was making at least his morning rounds, with Square in attendance to help him up on deck, where he would stand for half a glass or so, revelling with Jack, Tom and all hands present in the squadron's pace as the breeze came whistling in either over the starboard or the larboard bow, no longer a soldier's wind right aft as it had been the first day they sank the shore, but never heading them either, so that they beat steadily towards the Line, making legs a whole watch long.
Those German physicists lived and worked in the first half of the twentieth century-not too long ago by my notions of history, but if what these Tertians wanted me to believe were true-unlikely!
I was gathering a conviction that all Tertians were certifiably insane by Iowa standards.
Those German physicists lived and worked in the first half of the twentieth century—not too long ago by my notions of history, but if what these Tertians wanted me to believe were true—unlikely!