What's the difference between semitertian and tertian?
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.
Example Sentences:
Tertian
Definition:
(a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
(n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
(n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resistance of Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of tertian malaria, to synthetic antimalarials, together with the resistance of the vector mosquitoes to insecticides, has resulted in a resurgence in the use of quinine and a search for new antimalarial agents.
(2) 68 blood samples from tertian malaria cases were examined; 67 (98.5%) were positive.
(3) In the light of two recent cases of severe central nervous system malaria due to neglect in chemoprophylaxis, the authors report the very marked recrudescence in imported malaria and draw attention to the frequency of cases due to P. falciparum, the agent of malignant tertian fever and of malignant episodes.
(4) No epidemic consequence of imported and introduced cases of tertian malaria in malariogenic areas was shown.
(5) The understanding of clinico-epidemiological phenomena of tertian malaria has been the subject of controversy.
(6) A mixture of a special kind is febris semitertiana: a continuous quotidian is accompanied by an intermittent tertian.
(7) In general tertian malaria is rarely fatal to adults, but in children the primary attack can be life threatening.
(8) Initial symptoms developed within one month after the end of exposition in 21 out of 23 patients infected by Plasmodium falciparum, but only in three out of twelve cases of tertian malaria.
(9) The course of induced tertian malaria has been studied in patients in psychoneurological hospitals in Moscow over a long period.
(10) Of 140 patients with malignant tertian malaria seen during 1956 to 1967 10 died.
(11) The import of carriers to malariogenic areas was found to cause a minimal risk of restoration and implantation of tertian malaria.
(12) Physicians should be aware that definite cure of malignant tertian malaria does not prevent future attacks of benign tertian malaria.
(13) Pronounced synchronization was observed when cultures were exposed to periodic elevations of temperature that simulated the 48-h fever cycle of tertian malaria.
(14) The 16S-like rRNA genes of S. muris and T. annulata are more similar to each other than either is to Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of malignant tertian malaria of humans or Plasmodium berghei, the agent of the commonly studied malaria of rodents.
(15) Only two species of plasmodia have been found: the quartan-like Plasmodium brasilianum and the tertian-like P. simium, but the possible presence of other species is not excluded.
(16) Only three of the 35 non-immune patients complied with the appropriate chemoprophylaxis; these three patients nevertheless developed tertian malaria (recurrences caused by "dormant" merozoites).
(17) An epidemic of tertian malaria in some coastal areas of The Netherlands resulted in the setting up of official measures in 1920.
(18) Between 1980 and 1985 falciparum malaria was diagnosed in 28 and tertian malaria in 17 patients.
(19) Lethal risk is 12 fold higher in Malignant tertian form than in the intermittent one.
(20) Had drugs been continued for one month probably not a single overt case of P. falciparum would have occurred.A primary attack of P. falciparum malaria is seldom, if ever, classical in that the fever is never tertian and may resemble clinically many other diseases.Children in boarding-schools returning from the tropics should be supplied with prophylactic tablets and instructions to the matron.