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Recurring every fourth day
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quartan
Word definitions for quartan in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quartan \Quar"tan\, n. (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days. A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms. n. (context medicine historical English) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria); "quartan malaria"
Usage examples of quartan.
Charles is in weak health just now, only clear of a quartan ague, and it is likely he will keep his cabin most of the voyage.
The Romans knew that it occurred in different manifestations: quartan and tertian, and a more serious form having no regular rhythmic recurrence of the rigors.
Before quartan fever carried off Lina and Lena, when they all used to call the bay horse with a whistle and run arm in arm through the olive groves, it was they who taught her to ride.
Miles the landlord down with a quartan fever, but ill served by his staff if such be the result of his absence.
Richard fell victim to the quartan fever raging in the camp, and fear of his death smote the armies with dread.
Trader from whom I procured Jesuit Bark that the Indians use a Plant called Gallberry, which rivals the Bark of Cinchona for bitterness and is thought capital for Use in tertian and quartan Fevers.
But I have been troubled about my poor groom, Will Jones, who is very weak from the effects of a quartan ague.
Tercy thought the ambassador should be arrested and thrown into prison, and the Shah of Persia informed that his envoy had died in France of a quartan fever.
It disguises itself as a catarrh or quartan fever at first, but soon it settles in the lungs.
He had been sick for a long while with a quartan fever, whereby his body was wasted, and he finished his life with a happy agony.
If the cholery, or the quartan fever, didn't carry me off from that, then I needn't worry over any little mist in London.
Many of the sick from the inshore vessels were now aboard the Bellona and other ships of the squadron, most with fevers of one kind or another - tertians, double tertians, remittents and quartans for the most part, though there were three cases of the yellow jack - and very soon Dr Maturin was making at least his morning rounds, with Square in attendance to help him up on deck, where he would stand for half a glass or so, revelling with Jack, Tom and all hands present in the squadron's pace as the breeze came whistling in either over the starboard or the larboard bow, no longer a soldier's wind right aft as it had been the first day they sank the shore, but never heading them either, so that they beat steadily towards the Line, making legs a whole watch long.
Culpepper says: 'The distilled water of the whole herb' (Sea Holly) 'when the leaves and stalks are young is profitably drank for all the purposes aforesaid, and helps the melancholy of the heart, and is available in quartan and quotidian agues.