(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.
Third
Definition:
(a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
(a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
(n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
(n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
(10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
(11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
(12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
(18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.