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tertian

[tur-shuhn] / ˈtɜr ʃən /
ADJECTIVE
third
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A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria.

From Time Magazine Archive

Influenza, tertian fever, leprosy were all endemic, along with tapeworm and a mysterious intestinal infestation that made its victim long to eat earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa.

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He was shaked of a burning quotidian tertian.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol




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