tertian

Definitions

1. 1.(Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2. 2.A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day called?
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