QUARTAN
\kwˈɔːtən], \kwˈɔːtən], \k_w_ˈɔː_t_ə_n]\
Definitions of QUARTAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
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A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
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An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
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A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An intermittent, the paroxysms of which recur every fourth day, leaving between them two days' interval. We speak also of the Quartan Type. A Double Quartam, (F.) Double quarte, is one in which one paroxysm occurs on the third and another on the second day, so that there is only one day of apyrexia and two of paroxysms in succession; - the paroxysms of every fourth day resembling each other. A Triple Quartan is one in which there is a paroxysm every day; and on every three days the paroxysms correspond. A redoubling or repeating quartan, (F.) Fievre quarte doublee, is one in which there are two paroxysms every fourth day. See Intermittent.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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