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quartan

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɔːtən/

The English word “quartan” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

adjective

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

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”).

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