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semitertian, a. (n.) Old Path.|sɛmɪˈtɜːʃən|
[ad. mod.L. sēmitertiāna (febris), rendering Gr. ἡµιτριταία hemitritæan; see semi- and tertian.]
Applied to an intermittent fever which combines the symptoms of a quotidian and a tertian fever, consisting of a paroxysm occurring every day with a second stronger one every other day.
1611Florio, Hemitritéa fébbre, a Semitertian feauer. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 138. 1749 Short Hist. Air, etc. I. 223 In some Places few recovered who had it [sc. Peripneumony] accompanied with a violent Fever. Semi⁓tertians were next dangerous. 1888Fagge & Pye-Smith Princ. Med. (ed. 2) II. 165 The ‘hemitritæus’, i.e. semi⁓tertian, a form of ague mentioned by Galen. |