quartan
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Definition of quartan
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
“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.”
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noun
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(historical)A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
“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.”
adj
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(not-comparable)Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
“Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.”
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).
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