Quartan

Quartan - Other Definitions

• (a.) Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
  
  
• (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
  
  
• (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.