- (a.) Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
- (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively or in which the intermission lasts three days.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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