Quartans is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 200 anagrams from letters in quartans (aanqrstu).
1250-1300; Middle English quartaine Old French Latin (febris) quartāna quartan (fever), feminine of quartānus, equivalent to quart(us) fourth + -ānus Examples for quartans
Favorinus extolled Thersites, and wrote in praise of a quartan ague. Valeriola made use of the same means, with the like success, in a quartan ague. I had heard also that you had been plagued by a quartan ague. 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. This is the cycle, as described by Golgi, of the tertian and quartan parasite. Captain Lope Llanos kisses your Excellency's hands; he is very ill with quartan ague. In fixing this date he knew that Bayard was ill at the time with a quartan fever. Don Carlos had also fallen sick of the quartan fever, some time before the arrival of the queen in Spain. These have great memories, are liable to quartan agues, and stronger sympathies of parts with each other.