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Webster 1913 Edition
Quartan
Quar′tan
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively;
as, a
. quartan
ague, or feverQuar′tan
,Noun.
1.
(Med.)
An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
2.
A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quartan
QUARTAN
, quort'an. [L. quartanus, the fourth.]Designating the fourth; occurring every fourth day; as a quartan ague or fever.
Definition 2024
quartan
quartan
English
Noun
quartan (plural quartans)
- (medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 54:
- 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 1964, p. 54:
Adjective
quartan (comparative more quartan, superlative most quartan)
- (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.218:
- Pork, of all meats, is […] naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.218: