Associations to the word «Quartan»

Wiktionary

QUARTAN, noun. (medicine) (historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
QUARTAN, adjective. (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.

Dictionary definition

QUARTAN, noun. A malarial fever that recurs every fourth day.
QUARTAN, adjective. Occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria); "quartan malaria".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope