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Meaning of quartan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈkwɔːtən

Definitions

A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

historical

Equivalents

Français quartan

Examples

“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.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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