Crossword-Solution: TERTIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tertian | a. | Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. |
| Tertian | n. | A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. |
| Tertian | n. | A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TERTIAN | anagram | INTREAT, ITERANT, NATTIER, NITRATE, TARTINE |
We have 7 clues for the answer “TERTIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Every 48 hours | 1 answer |
| Every other day | 1 answer |
| Occurring every other day. | 1 answer |
| Occurring every third day. | 1 answer |
| Recurring every other day. | 1 answer |
| FEVER, type of | 6 answers |
| BRITISH measure | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with TERTIAN (5)
There are no beds in this place, and if we lie down in the litter in our damp clothes we shall catch a tertian of Galicia.
But it wasn't meant for that peace to last very long because on the third day real tertian fever struck.
Leon is beautifully situated in a smiling blooming country abounding in grass and trees, and watered by many streams which have their source in a mighty chain of mountains in the neighbourhood, which traverse a great part of Spain and are connected with the Pyrenees; but unfortunately it is exceedingly unhealthy, for the heats of the summer-time raise noxious exhalations from the waters, which generate all kinds of disorders, especially fevers and tertian agues.
When the constitution is disordered by excess of fire, continuous heat and fever are the result; when excess of air is the cause, then the fever is quotidian; when of water, which is a more sluggish element than either fire or air, then the fever is a tertian; when of earth, which is the most sluggish of the four, and is only purged away in a four-fold period, the result is a quartan fever, which can with difficulty be shaken off.
Once and again I was able to carry a nice fresh melon to an old lady my mother was fond of, who now lay sick with a tertian ague.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1950–2007).