quartan
Americanadjective
noun
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a quartan fever or ague.
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quartan malaria.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of quartan
1250–1300; Middle English quartaine < Old French < Latin ( febris ) quartāna quartan (fever), feminine of quartānus, equivalent to quart ( us ) fourth + -ānus -an
Vocabulary lists containing quartan
Example Sentences
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The malaria was the quartan type and gave the Saint a chill every four days during the last twelve years of his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found him much weakened with a quartan ague, which had not left him; and embraced him just at the moment when his fit was coming on him.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Sir Walter Scott
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.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It has been remarked by several writers that quartan attacks have a smaller ratio in the Southern States than in other parts of the Union.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In fixing this date he knew that Bayard was ill at the time with a quartan fever.
From Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach by Christopher Hare
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