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tertian

[tur-shuhn] / ˈtɜr ʃən /
ADJECTIVE
third
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Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Such Disorders generally preserve the Intermissons of quotidian or tertian Fevers, but much seldomer those of Quartans.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)




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