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
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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
The second is accompanied with a tumid viscus; and the last has generally, I believe, the quartan type, and is attended with some degree of arterial debility.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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
Favorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague.
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus
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
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