quartanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔːtən/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔɹtən/

名詞

quartan (複数形 quartans)

1. (medicine, historical) A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 54:

     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.

形容詞

quartan (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, page 218: