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Quartal vs Quartan - What's the difference?

quartal | quartan |

As adjectives the difference between quartal and quartan

is that quartal is (mathematics) of base four; using only four unique digits while quartan is (medicine) recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.

As a noun quartan is

(medicine|historical) a fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

quartal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (mathematics) Of base four; using only four unique digits.
  • (music, of harmony) Having a distinct preference for intervals of fourths.

    • quartan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.218:
    • Pork, of all meats, isnaught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.