Usually means: Recurring every five days fever.
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  1. quintan: Merriam-Webster
  2. quintan: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Quintan, quintan: Wordnik
  4. quintan: Wiktionary
  5. quintan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. quintan: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Quintan, quintan: Dictionary.com
  8. Quintan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. quintan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Quintan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. quintan: FreeDictionary.org
  12. quintan: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. quintan: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quintan)

▸ adjective:  (of a fever) Recurring every fifth day.
▸ noun:  A fever that recurs every fifth day.

Similar:
tertian, quartan, quartane, quotidian, subquintuple, quatridual, quinquennalian, quinquennial, quinquennary, sextan, more...

Opposite:
quartan, tertian, biweekly

Phrases:
quintan fever, fever, quintan, fever quintan, more...

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Similar:
tertian, quartan, quartane, quotidian, subquintuple, quatridual, quinquennalian, quinquennial, quinquennary, sextan, more...

Opposite:
quartan, tertian, biweekly

Phrases:
quintan fever, fever, quintan, fever quintan, more...



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