QUARTAN, QUARTAN FEVER
\kwˈɔːtən], \kwˈɔːtən], \k_w_ˈɔː_t_ə_n]\
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A malarial fever the paroxysms of which recur every third day (every fourth day, reckoning the day of the paroxysm as the first), due to the sporulation and invasion of new red blood-corpuscles by a protozoan blood-parasite, Plasmodium malarice.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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exudative diathesis
- A predisposition to interstitial subcutaneous serous or fibrinous infiltrations; subjects suffer from swollen lymph nodes, thickening of tongue, pruritus, seborrhea, gastric and cardiac crises; the condition is aggravated by pilocarpine, but favorably affected atropine adrenalin.