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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nerve fiber
- a threadlike extension of nerve cell Slender processes of neurons, especially the prolonged axons that conduct nerve impulses. One units trunk; it is axis process a neuron and medullated, i. e. white substance Schwann (myelin), medullated; either the medullated non-axis-cylinder or may not be surrounded by primitive sheath neurilemma, so that there are four forms of nerve-fibers.