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sextan

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sex⋅tan

[sek-stuhn]
–adjective
1. (of a fever) characterized by paroxysms that recurevery sixth day.
–noun
2. a sextan fever.

Origin:
1650–60; < NL sextān(a) (febris) sixth day (fever), equiv. to L sext(us) sixth + āna -an
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