Definition of Quartan

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

Partainyms: Time Period

2. Noun. A malarial fever that recurs every fourth day.
Generic synonyms: Ague, Chills And Fever

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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