'Tertian' definitions:
Definition of 'tertian'
From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day; "tertian fever"
adjective
Of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a tertian tonal system"
Definition of 'Tertian'
From: GCIDE
- Tertian \Ter"tian\, a. [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce.] (Med.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tertian'
From: GCIDE
- Tertian \Ter"tian\, n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.]
- 1. (Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun. [1913 Webster]