Category:Tertian

Ter"tian, a. Etym: [l. tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce.] (med.)

Defn: occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

Tertian Ter"tian, n. Etym: [l. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. Of. tertiane.]

1. (med.)

Defn: a disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns Every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission Lasts one day.

2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy Imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.