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Example sentences for "tertian"

Lexicographically close words:
tersely; terseness; tertia; tertials; tertiam; tertii; tertio; tertium; tertius; tertulia
  1. Later he went to Malta, and was detained there by another bad attack of tertian fever.

  2. At the beginning of November the poet was prostrated by an attack of tertian fever.

  3. But a tertian ague, with which he was seized shortly after his arrival, compelled him to remain for some days inactive in Lombardy--a delay of which the neighboring powers availed themselves to prepare for defence.

  4. An attack of tertian ague, which about this time the king suffered, or perhaps feigned, in Segovia, afforded a plausible pretence for postponing his journey, while meantime the preparations for it were carried on with the utmost activity.

  5. Schizogony usually occurs in the internal organs, particularly in the spleen, instead of in the peripheral circulation, as is the case of the tertian and quartan forms.

  6. A febrile paroxysm occurred daily thereafter, but the parasites did not appear in the blood until September 17, when large numbers of typical tertian parasites were found.

  7. In other cases there may be two distinct paroxysms on the same day, and none on the following day, indicating the presence of two broods of tertian parasites maturing at different hours every second day.

  8. The result is reported by Manson, as follows: "Mosquitoes infected with the parasite of benign tertian malarial fever were sent from Rome to England, and were allowed to feed upon the blood of a perfectly healthy individual (Dr.

  9. That very night, I tossed so violently in the throes of a dangerous chill that I was afraid I had contracted a tertian ague, and in my dreams I prayed for a medicine.

  10. When I considered these things I no longer wondered that the health of my predecessors had given way, and that the Indians themselves had so often to contend with tertian fevers.

  11. To this continual trepidation was added the contagion of the tertian fever, which raged indiscriminately, for a length of time, amongst persons of either sex, and of every age.

  12. It has been observed in intermitting fevers, that paroxysms of the quotidian recur in the morning, the tertian at noon, and the quartan in the afternoon; in no instance do they take place at night.

  13. Thus to cure a tertian fever he directs the use of Verbena, to be cut at the third articulation of the plant; but in the treatment of a quartern, the disease would only yield to the fourth joints.

  14. A tailor, 30 years of age, had moved to the lower part of the city and contracted a tertian intermittent.

  15. Defn: Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

  16. Defn: An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.

  17. Defn: Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.

  18. This gourd is a by no means unpleasant dish, and a celebrated medicine for persons afflicted with the tertian ague.

  19. In this place, the tertian ague and wens are common; a circumstance arising from the rivulets flowing from the neighbouring mountains.

  20. The writer, Pierre Costar, wilfully lingered three weeks in a tertian fever so that he might enjoy the sickly dreams which accompanied the recurrent paroxysms of the disease.

  21. His reply was a chattering curse, not upon Falconnet or the Indians, but upon his malady, the tertian fever.

  22. Having had a tertian fever more than once in the Turkish campaigning, I had a fellow-feeling for the poor lad, knowing well how the thought of a plunge into cold water would make him shrink.

  23. Fevers, quotidian and tertian (Hummah Salis), in Arabia, i.

  24. They go about until more violent symptoms come on, simulating those of quotidian, tertian or quartan fever; sometimes the malady simulates pleurisy.

  25. This fever had every kind of variety, and whether at its first accession it were a quotidian, a tertian or a quartan, it was very apt to change from one type to another.

  26. The "plebs medicorum" say that a quartan fever comes of melancholy, a tertian of choler, a quotidian of putrefied pituitous matter.

  27. Ralph Thoresby caught it at Rotterdam, suffered from it, in the tertian form, for several weeks of October and November, 1678, and brought it home with him to Leeds.

  28. Cromwell died of a tertian ague which he caught at Hampton Court; therefore "the country round London in Cromwell's time" must needs have been "as marshy as the fens of Lincolnshire are now.

  29. The poor missionary had his fit of tertian fever, and besought us to re-embark immediately after midnight.

  30. The poor missionaries of the Orinoco, who are afflicted with tertian fevers during a great part of the year, seldom travel without a little bag filled with frutas de burro.

  31. They had suffered from tertian fever for some months; and their pale and emaciated aspect easily convinced us that the countries we were about to visit were not without danger to the health of travellers.

  32. This poor monk still continued to have fits of tertian ague; they had become to him an habitual evil, to which he paid little attention.

  33. There are situated the salt-works; and there, at the beginning of the rainy season, tertian fevers prevail, and easily degenerate into asthenic fevers.

  34. Olympia had been suffering the whole time from tertian fever, and was absolutely unable to proceed further.

  35. He does not tell us who was the writer: "The Grand Duke has had two tertian fevers, one after the other; in fact, continual fever.

  36. In some the type improved after three or four of these quasi-tertian paroxysms; the later fits were ushered in with a rigor and a cold stage, so that the fever became an exact tertian intermittent.

  37. Theobalds on March 27, from the effects of a tertian ague, for which he preferred to be treated by the plasters and possets of an obscure ague-curer from Dunmow, setting aside his physicians, who would have succeeded no better.

  38. Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.

  39. An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.

  40. For tertian fever, the rod is an admirable specific.

  41. The nobleman was right, the lawyer was forever cured of his tertian fever.

  42. It provokes urine and women’s courses, and is singularly good against the yellow jaundice, tertian and quartan agues, if the juice thereof be taken, but especially made up into a syrup.

  43. It expels poison much, resists pestilential fevers, being exceeding good also for tertian agues: You may drink the decoction of it, if you please, for all the foregoing infirmities.

  44. It purges choler, and is good in tertian agues, and diseases of the joints, it purges violently, therefore let it be warily given.

  45. It helps them that have a tertian ague (the body being first purged) by taking away the cold fits.

  46. The author appropriates it to such as have tertian agues, the yellow jaundice, obstructions or stoppings of the liver; half a dram taken at night going to bed, will work with an ordinary body, the next day by noon.

  47. A draught of the decoction taken warm before the fit, first removes, and in time rids away the tertian or quartan agues.

  48. It is held to be good against the biting of serpents, and other venomous beasts, against the plague, and both tertian and quartan agues.

  49. In the End of July, and Beginning of August, the aguish Cases we had at Munster continued to be of the Quotidian or Tertian Kind.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tertian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annual; biennial; daily; diurnal; fortnightly; hourly; menstrual; momentary; monthly; secular; semiannual; semimonthly; triennial; weekly; yearly