quartan
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]quartan (plural quartans)
- (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
[edit]quartan (not comparable)
- (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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[edit]Further reading
[edit]quartan fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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