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.