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quartan

noun, adj — 2 senses

quartan

noun

UK /ˈkwɔːtən/ · US /ˈkwɔɹtən/

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”).

1

Medicine, Sciences 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.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54:

quartan

adj

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”).

1

Medicine, Sciences 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.1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 218:
Coordinate terms
quotidian, tertian

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