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Meaning of quartan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈkwɔːtən/

Definitions

A fever whose symptoms recur every four days.

historical

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.”

CEFR level

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

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