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QUARTAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A malarial fever that recurs every fourth day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("quartan" is a kind of...):
ague; chills and fever (successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria)
Example:
quartan malaria
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
time period (an amount of time)
