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quartans

quartans is the plural of quartan.

Meaning of quartan

Noun

quartan (plural quartans)

  1. (historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
    • an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 54

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Questions about quartans

What is quartans the plural of?
Quartans is the plural of quartan.

Words near quartans in the dictionary

  1. quartals
  2. quartan
  3. quartana
  4. quartanary
  5. quartane
  6. quartans
  7. Quartararo
  8. quartaries
  9. quartarii
  10. quartarius
  11. quartariuses

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