Usually means: Recurring fever every third day.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word tertian:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tertian: Merriam-Webster
  2. tertian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tertian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tertian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tertian: Vocabulary.com
  6. tertian: Wordnik
  7. tertian: Wiktionary
  8. tertian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tertian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tertian: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tertian: Dictionary.com
  12. Tertian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tertian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tertian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tertian: Rhymezone
  16. Tertian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tertian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. tertian: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tertian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tertian: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tertian: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tertian (unit): Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tertian: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tertian: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tertian)

adjective:  (medicine, of a fever) Characterised by paroxysms recurring every other day (that is, every third day by inclusive reckoning).
adjective:  (music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.
noun:  A tertian fever.
noun:  A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity (one-third of a tun's).

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