| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ter·tian |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  tûr sh n |
| ADJECTIVE: | Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day: a tertian fever. | | NOUN: | Pathology A tertian fever, such as vivax malaria. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English terciane, tertian fever, from Latin (febris) terti na, (fever) of the third (day), from tertius, third. See trei- in Appendix I.
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