tertian

Recurring every other day or, when considered inclusively, every third day.

A tertian fever, such as vivax malaria.

Occurring every second day: as, a tertian fever.

A fever or other disease whose paroxysms return after a period of two days, or on the third day, reckoning both days of consecutive occurrence; an intermittent whose paroxysms occur after intervals of about forty-eight hours.

In organ-building, a stop consisting of a tierce and a larigot combined.

A measure of 84 gallons, the third part of a tun.

A curve of the third order.

Occurring every third day.

A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.