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quartan
[ kwawr-tn ]
adjective
- (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every fourth day, both days of consecutive occurrence being counted.
noun
- a quartan fever or ague.
- quartan malaria.
quartan
/ ˈɔːə /
adjective
- (esp of a malarial fever) occurring every third day
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of quartan1
Example Sentences
It therefore furnishes the basis of classification of simple intermittents into the following forms: quotidian, tertian, and quartan.
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.
Two, the so-called benign fevers, are intermittent; namely, tertian and quartan fever, in which the fever recurs every second and third day respectively.
Don Carlos had also fallen sick of the quartan fever, some time before the arrival of the queen in Spain.
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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