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tertian

[tur-shuhn] / ˈtɜr ʃən /
ADJECTIVE
third
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Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria.

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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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

If this fever did not leave him, he must try blood-letting on himself, as though in a tertian.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel