tertian
n. முறைவலிப்புக் காய்ச்சல், (பெயரடை) முறைவலிப்புக் காய்ச்சல் சார்ந்த.
Ter"tian, a. Etym: [L. tertianus, from tertius the third. See Tierce.] (Med.) Defn: Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. Ter"tian, n. Etym: [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF. tertiane.] 1. (Med.) Defn: A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. 2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.