Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quartan

1 sense of quartan

Sense 1
quartan -- (a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day)
       => ague, chills and fever -- (successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria)

Similarity of adj quartan

1 sense of quartan

Sense 1
quartan -- (occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria); "quartan malaria")