Quartan vs Quartane - What's the difference?
quartan | quartane |
(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:
(medicine) Recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.
*, New York, 2001, p.218:
As nouns the difference between quartan and quartane
is that quartan is (medicine|historical) a fever whose symptoms recur every four days while quartane is (chemistry|obsolete) butane.As an adjective quartan
is (medicine) recurring every four days; especially in designating a form of malaria with such symptoms.quartan
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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)- Pork, of all meats, isnaught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.
