Usually means: Recurring fever every fifth day.
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  4. Fever, quintan, Quintan fever: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quintan fever)

▸ noun:  (medicine, archaic) An intermittent fever returning every fifth day (inclusive), or in which the intermission lasts three days.

Similar:
quintan, quartan, sextan, septan, octan, five-day fever, quotidian, quintation, quint, quintary, more...

Opposite:
quartfever, tertifever, non-malarial fever

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Similar:
quintan, quartan, sextan, septan, octan, five-day fever, quotidian, quintation, quint, quintary, more...

Opposite:
quartfever, tertifever, non-malarial fever



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