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Tertian
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
(2):
(a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
(3):
(n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tertian'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tertian.html. 1828.