Tertian [adjective]
Definition of Tertian:
after second
Opposite/Antonyms of Tertian:
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Sentence/Example of Tertian:
If this fever did not leave him, he must try blood-letting on himself, as though in a tertian.
I have a tertian fever, which seized me after the fete at Vaux.
He was seized with a slow fever, which changed into a tertian ague.
This is the cycle, as described by Golgi, of the tertian and quartan parasite.
Sometimes the fever simulated a quotidian, sometimes a tertian.
I curtailed it yesterday, my head and hair being weakly after my tertian.
The nobleman was right, the lawyer was forever cured of his tertian fever.
"He plead a tertian fever--would not mar our warmth with his shivering," said the other.
From this I contracted a severe cold, which ended in a tertian ague.
His reply was a chattering curse, not upon Falconnet or the Indians, but upon his malady, the tertian fever.