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Definition of Quartan

Quartan
Quartan Quar"tan, a. [F. quartain, in fi[`e]vre quartaine, L. quartanus, fr. quartus the fourth. See Quart.] Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
Quartan
Quartan Quar"tan, n. 1. (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days. 2. A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.

Meaning of Quartan from wikipedia

- Quartan fever is one of the four types of malaria which can be contracted by humans. It is specifically caused by the Plasmodium malariae species, one...
- include fevers that recur at approximately three-day intervals – a quartan fever or quartan malarialonger than the two-day (tertian) intervals of the other...
- In mathematics, a quartan prime is a prime number of the form x4 + y4 where x and y are positive integers. Odd quartan primes are of the form 16n + 1....
- This is a list of articles about prime numbers. A prime number (or prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1...
- Intermittent fever is a type or pattern of fever in which there is an interval where temperature is elevated for several hours followed by an interval...
- trachoma and quartan malaria. Quartan malaria infects the liver, spleen, and stomach, causing the victim intense pain. One complication of quartan malaria...
- (tertian fever) in P. vivax and P. ovale infections, and every three days (quartan fever) for P. malariae. P. fal****rum infection can cause recurrent fever...
- recent historians. At the age of four, he fell ill with a life-threatening "quartan fever", but, despite occasional illnesses and poor eyesight, he enjo****...
- Polenta. Dante died in Ravenna on September 14, 1321, aged about 56, of quartan malaria contracted while returning from a diplomatic mission to the Republic...
- concluded that Francis contracted trachoma while in Egypt and died of quartan malaria. This data was published in the Annals of Medical History. Francis...