Quotidian

Quotidian

Quotidian (/kwoʊˈtɪdiən/), from the Latin quotidianus meaning "daily", is a term used in medicine to describe symptoms or occurrences that happen every day. It is often used to describe fevers, such as a quotidian fever, which is a fever that recurs every 24 hours.

Etymology

The term quotidian comes from the Latin quotidianus, which is derived from quotidie meaning "every day". It is composed of quot ("how many") and dies ("day").

Related Terms

• Fever: A temporary increase in body temperature, often due to an illness.
• Malaria: A disease caused by a plasmodite parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. One type of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, can cause quotidian fever.
• Paroxysm: A sudden attack or increase of symptoms of a disease that often occurs again and again.
• Tertian: In medicine, this term is used to describe conditions that recur every two days.
• Quartan: This term is used to describe conditions that recur every three days.

See Also

• List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes
• Medical terminology
• Medical dictionary

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Quotidian
• Wikipedia's article - Quotidian

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