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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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
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
One problem, however, was left open, and that was why certain forms of the disease had their chills every fourth day and so were called quartan ague.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
Considering his mental parts and moral qualities, it is a pity that he did not suffer from a tertian or a quartan fever, the headache, the colic, or peradventure piles.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
She is pining away under a quartan ague.
From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Arthur William Ryder
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