What is an intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days called?
quartan — (Med.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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