Quartan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwɔːtən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quartan is a noun meaning (medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
Meaning
(medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
More Meanings
- (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
Example Sentences
Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.
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.
Word Forms
- quartans
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ague, agues, quintan, octan, septan, quotidian.
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