† hemitriˈtæan, a. Obs. Med.
[f. late L. hēmitritæ-us, ad. Gr. ἡµιτριταῖος (Hippocrates) semi-tertian, f. ἡµι- hemi- + τριταῖος on the third day, lasting three days, f. τρίτος third: see -an. Cf. F. hémitritée.]
Semi-tertian: said of an intermittent fever that combines the symptoms of a quotidian and a tertian fever, consisting of a paroxysm occurring every day with a second stronger one every other day.
| 1651 J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 374 It will cure the Hemitritean Feaver. 1657 G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 259, I leave out the names of Feavers Hemitritean. |