Qué (quién) es QUARTAN - definición
PARASITIC PROTOZOON THAT CAUSES MALARIA IN HUMANS
Quartan Malaria; Quartan ague
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Quartan
·noun A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
II. Quartan ·adj Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
III. Quartan ·noun An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
quartan
['kw?:t(?)n]
¦ adjective Medicine denoting a mild form of malaria causing a fever that recurs every third day.
Origin
ME: from L. (febris) quartana, based on L. quartus 'fourth' (because, by inclusive reckoning, the fever recurs every fourth day).
Quartan prime
In mathematics, a quartan prime is a prime number of the form x4 + y4 where x and y are positive integers. The odd quartan primes are of the form 16n + 1.
Wikipedia
Plasmodium malariae
Plasmodium malariae is a parasitic protozoan that causes malaria in humans. It is one of several species of Plasmodium parasites that infect other organisms as pathogens, also including Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, responsible for most malarial infection. Found worldwide, it causes a so-called "benign malaria", not nearly as dangerous as that produced by P. falciparum or P. vivax. The signs include fevers that recur at approximately three-day intervals – a quartan fever or quartan malaria – longer than the two-day (tertian) intervals of the other malarial parasites.
