Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day: a tertian fever.
n.Medicine
A tertian fever, such as vivax malaria.
[Middle English terciane, tertian fever, from Latin (febris) tertiāna, (fever) of the third (day), from tertius, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots.]
By these means Elnathan had acquired a certain degree of knowledge in fevers and agues, and could talk with judgment concerning intermittents, remittents, tertians, quotidians, etc.
I went to study cimbalom at the conservatory in Kromeriz (conservatories in Central Eastern Europe are in fact institutions of secondary, rather than tertian, education--translator's note).
He said that communities of the GB were more prone to natural disasters because of certain geographic tertian and it was our responsibility to educate our youth about the beautiful concept of voluntarism and equip them with relevant skills and knowledge so as to respond to the emergencies in planned, organised and professional ways.
Similar cases have been reported in Greece between 2009 and 2013 with registered cases of tertian malaria with local transmission imported by migrants (29).
Ibn al-Baytar, a leading pharmacologist of the thirteenth century, cites al-Razi's Manafi' al-aghdhiya in his own work on drugs and foodstuffs, echoing much of the specific information found in our treatise below, namely, that watermelons, especially the sweet parts of watermelons far from the rind, turn quickly into bile and thus can cause tertian burning fevers.
Tertian et al., "Hemolysis and schistocytosis in the emergency department: consider pseudothrombotic microangiopathy related to vitamin B12 deficiency," Quarterly Journal of Medicine, vol.
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