quartan

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English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

quartan (plural quartans)

  1. (medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
    • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54:
      an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head.

Adjective

quartan (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, , Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 218:
      Pork, of all meats, is […] naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.

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