quartan — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

   Usage

   • Historical

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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

1. Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.

Adjective

1. occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria)

   Examples

   quartan malaria

Noun

1. a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day

   Broader terms

   aguechills and fever