资料来源 : pyDict

每三天发生一次的,隔日的隔日热

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tertian \Ter"tian\, a. [L. tertianus, from tertius the third.
   See {Tierce}.] (Med.)
   Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

Tertian \Ter"tian\, n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris): cf. OF.
   tertiane.]
   1. (Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which
      returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in
      which the intermission lasts one day.

   2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy
      imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of
      a tun.

资料来源 : WordNet®

tertian
     adj 1: relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear
            every other day; "tertian fever"
     2: of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a
        tertian tonal system"