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quartan

[ kwawr-tn ]

adjective

  1. (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every fourth day, both days of consecutive occurrence being counted.


noun

  1. a quartan fever or ague.
  2. quartan malaria.

quartan

/ ˈɔːə /

adjective

  1. (esp of a malarial fever) occurring every third day
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of quartan1

1250–1300; Middle English quartaine < Old French < Latin ( febris ) ܲԲ quartan (fever), feminine of ܲԳܲ, equivalent to quart ( us ) fourth + -Գܲ -an
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of quartan1

C13: from Latin febris ܲԲ fever occurring every fourth day, reckoned inclusively
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Example Sentences

It therefore furnishes the basis of classification of simple intermittents into the following forms: quotidian, tertian, and quartan.

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It has been observed in intermitting fevers, that paroxysms of the quotidian recur in the morning, the tertian at noon, and the quartan in the afternoon; in no instance do they take place at night.

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Two, the so-called benign fevers, are intermittent; namely, tertian and quartan fever, in which the fever recurs every second and third day respectively.

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Don Carlos had also fallen sick of the quartan fever, some time before the arrival of the queen in Spain.

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Her fountains ministered to bodily ailments—Vapours, Winds, Gouts, Quinsies, Consumptions, Fevers quartan and tertian—without pretending to the power of love-philtres or the sparkle of the Castalian Spring.

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