What does quartan mean?
Definitions for quartan
ˈkwɔr tnquar·tan
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Princeton's WordNet
quartanadjective
a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day
quartanadjective
occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria)
"quartan malaria"
Wiktionary
quartannoun
A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
quartanadjective
Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
Etymology: quartaine, quartaine, from quartana (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartanus, from quartus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Quartannoun
The fourth day ague.
Etymology: febris quartana, Lat.
It were an uncomfortable receipt for a quartan ague, to lay the fourth book of ’s Iliads under one’s head. Brown.
Call her the metaphysicks of her sex,
And say she tortures wits, as quartans vex
Physicians. John Cleveland.Among these, quartans and tertians of a long continuance most menace this symptom. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.
A look so pale no quartan ever gave,
Thy dwindled legs seem crawling to the grave. Dryden.
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quartan
Quartan refers to something that recurs every fourth day. Often, it is used in medical context to describe type of malaria, known as quartan malaria, characterized by paroxysms of chills, fever, and sweating recurring every three days.
Webster Dictionary
Quartanadjective
of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever
Quartannoun
an intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days
Quartannoun
a measure, the fourth part of some other measure
Etymology: [F. quartain, in fivre quartaine, L. quartanus, fr. quartus the fourth. See Quart.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Quartan
kwor′tan, adj. occurring every fourth day, as a fever or ague.—n. an ague of this character. [Fr. quartaine—L. quartanus, of the fourth.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of quartan in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of quartan in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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