quartan

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A fever whose symptoms recur every four days

an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head.

Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms

Pork, of all meats, is naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.

{a} every fourth day
{n} a fourth day argue
Something which occurs every four days
An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days
{s} (about attacks of disease) recurring every fourth day
A measure, the fourth part of some other measure
occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria); "quartan malaria
Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever
quartan

    Silbentrennung

    quar·tan

    Aussprache

    Etymologie

    () Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).
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