quartan — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

   Uso

   • storico

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (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.

Aggettivo

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

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Esempi

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

Aggettivo

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

   Esempi

   quartan malaria

Sostantivo

1. a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day

   Termini più generali

   aguechills and fever