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Definition of Quartan

1. Noun. A malarial fever that recurs every fourth day.

2. Adjective. Occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria). "Quartan malaria"

Definition of Quartan

1. a. Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

2. n. An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

Definition of Quartan

1. Noun. (medicine historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days. ¹

2. Adjective. (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quartan

1. a recurrent malarial fever [n -S]

Medical Definition of Quartan

1. A cyclic fever in which 72 hours elapse between attacks. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartan

quarronses quarry quarry-faced quarry light quarry tile quarry water quarrying quarryings quarrylike quarryman

quarrymen quart quart-pot quart-pots quartal quartan (current term) quartan fever quartan malaria quartan parasite quartane

quartans quartation quartations quarte quartene quartenylic quartenylic acid quarter quarter- quarter-century

Literary usage of Quartan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. La intossicazione chinica e l'infezione malarica by Salvatore Tomaselli, William Sydney Thayer (1897)
"quartan fever affords an excellent opportunity for studying segmenting bodies. ... Double quartan Infection.—Not infrequently the blood contains two groups ..."

2. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"We speak nlso of the quartan Type. A Double Quartini, (F.) Double quarte, ... A Triple quartan ia one in which there is a paroxysm every day ; and on every ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"Dr. Golgi asserts that, similarly as in quartan fever, so in tertian fever ... Thus, in the blood of a patient with treble quartan fever there were three ..."

4. Chemical and Micoscopical Diagnosis by Francis Carter Wood (1909)
"DEVELOPMENT OF THE quartan PARASITE The early forms of the quartan parasite can not always be distinguished from those of the tertian until after the ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1873)
"To find the conditions that a quartan may have 3 Diameters. ... This is the equation of every quartan which has so much as one diameter. ..."

6. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1900)
"The fever which the quartan parasite ... double, or treble quartan ague—is, relatively, much more common in temperate latitudes than in the tropics. ..."

7. A Practical Study of Malaria by William Heiskell Deaderick (1909)
"quartan Infection.—The quartan parasite accomplishes its endogenous cycle in ... Hence infection with a single generation of quartan parasites produces a ..."

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