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
Her fountains ministered to bodily ailments—Vapours, Winds, Gouts, Quinsies, Consumptions, Fevers quartan and tertian—without pretending to the power of love-philtres or the sparkle of the Castalian Spring.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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 Darwin, Erasmus
These have great memories, are liable to quartan agues, and stronger sympathies of parts with each other.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Five grains three times a day will nearly always cure tertian and quartan cases, especially if the patient is kept in bed until the time for one or two paroxysms has passed.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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