Quartan is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 95 anagrams from letters in quartan (aanqrtu).
1250-1300; Middle English quartaine Old French Latin (febris) quartāna quartan (fever), feminine of quartānus, equivalent to quart(us) fourth + -ānus Examples for quartan
Don Carlos had also fallen sick of the quartan fever, some time before the arrival of the queen in Spain. quartan, kwor′tan, adj. occurring every fourth day, as a fever or ague. In quartan fever the cycle took seventy-two hours, exactly the length of the clinical cycle of that form of malarial disease. In fixing this date he knew that Bayard was ill at the time with a quartan fever. I had heard also that you had been plagued by a quartan ague. Favorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague. Captain Lope Llanos kisses your Excellency's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague. Valeriola made use of the same means, with the like success, in a quartan ague. This is the cycle, as described by Golgi, of the tertian and quartan parasite. These have great memories, are liable to quartan agues, and stronger sympathies of parts with each other.