What is a disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day called?
tertian — (Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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