[attrib.](Medicine)denoting a mild form of malaria causing a fever that recurs every third day (医)(疟疾)每隔两日复发的。 比较 tertian
Quartan malaria (or quartan ague) is caused by infection with Plasmodium malariae 三日疟是由三日疟原虫感染引起的。比较 tertian quartan fever. 三日热病。
语源
late Middle English: from Latin (febris) quartana, based on Latin quartus 'fourth' (because, by inclusive reckoning, the fever recurs every fourth day)