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Definition of Octan
1. a fever recurring every eighth day [n -S]
Medical Definition of Octan
1. Applied to fever, the paroxysms of which recur every eighth day, the day of a paroxysm being counted as the first in the computation. Origin: L. Octo, eight (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octan
Literary usage of Octan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by an by Samuel Burder (1812)
"... to the bowels as their seat, where they likewise suppose all operations of
the mind to be performed. Cook's Voyage to the Pacific octan. ..."
2. Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from "The Educational Times", with edited by Constance I Marks (1908)
"(2). and hence the octan ia ... showing that for all values of a, / 3 the
octan (42a2 + j82 + ... 2 (7a2-j82), z = 7a2 + 02 + 42a/3, and the octan f ..."
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