What's the difference between quotidian and semitertian?
Quotidian
Definition:
(a.) Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
(n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.
Example Sentences:
(1) (The work is named after Jack Foley, who first came up with a process for adding quotidian noises, such as footsteps, to films in the 1920s.)
(2) Adult-onset Still's disease is a systemic illness characterized by quotidian fever and a fleeting, salmon-colored rash.
(3) A mixture of a special kind is febris semitertiana: a continuous quotidian is accompanied by an intermittent tertian.
(4) Both lift us out of our everyday monotony – poets by finding the eternal within the quotidian; royals by gliding about in crowns and ballgowns – and I am not a femme serieuse .
(5) The myth is that of the eponymous artist who stepped into his painting as the culmination of his work and to elude quotidian reality.
(6) For registering the postural component of lithium-induced tremor, the first two methods proved themselves worthy of recommendation in quotidian practice.
(7) We'd gathered at Downing College, Cambridge, to discuss the economic crisis, although the quotidian misery of that topic seemed a world away from the honeyed quads and endowment plush of this place .
(8) Those having left school and receiving less education were also significantly more pessimistic and worried about quotidian contact with HIV+ people, and their ability to control against HIV infection.
(9) Activity of the enzyme in P. knowlesi, an intrinsically synchronous quotidian parasite, was found to be dependent on the stage of parasite development.
(10) Lower down the scale one could cite the quotidian grumbling in workplaces across the land from underlings hamstrung by their less competent bosses – a tendency observed by Richard Sennett among others, though we can surely all supply examples.
(11) The attacks on Paris were, after all, an attack on the ordinary, on the quotidian routines of Parisian life.
(12) This is less high-flown and more quotidian than it sounds.
(13) This is an economy of minor anxieties and insignificant dangers: the emotional range of a comfortable life, fretted by quotidian storms – a parking ticket, a stressful day at work, a forgotten lunch date.
(14) It includes explicit sex and copious drug use; it also includes domestic squabbles, quotidian work hassles and meals with friends, straight and gay.
(15) The novel prompted comparisons with Kafka and Philip K Dick for its exploration of arbitrary authority and individual disorientation, and has been read as an allegory of divided cities such as Jerusalem and Berlin as well as the quotidian willed blindness of modern life.
(16) Photograph: Alamy The idea that food is an "art form" in itself is a much stronger claim than traditional phrasing such as "the art of cookery" (on the model of the French l'art de … ), a more modest attribution of creativity and craft ( techné rather than poésis ) to quotidian activity.
(17) The onset of this illness is sudden and is characterized by quotidian fever, evanescent rash, arthritis, leukocytosis and with variable frequency abnormalities of the liver function tests, adenopathy, splenomegaly and loss of weight.
(18) Adams doesn’t like the quotidian routine of small vexations that make up a political career; he likes the big game, and he has played it well in sidelining the nationalist rival the SDLP .
(19) On the one hand, the procession of people with their quotidian concerns, nervous demeanour and hoarded bits of paper resemble nothing so much as feudal petitioners; a real reminder of the powerlessness of many ordinary people.
(20) Nkosi effortlessly acquired the habits of his colleagues – the demanding journalistic assignments, the clashes with the law, the insatiable literary talk, heavy drinking, jazz through the night – against the backdrop of quotidian township violence.
Semitertian
Definition:
(a.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.
(n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.