quartan
IPA: kwˈɑrtʌn
noun
- (medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
adjective
- (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
Advertisement
Examples of "quartan" in Sentences
- He had long been suffering from a quartan ague, as well as gout and the stone.
Advertisement
Advertisement