QUADRIPARTITE 



Quadripartite (kwod-rip-ar* -fit) [quadri,(our; partire, 



to divide]. In biology, divided into four parts. 

 Quadripennate {kiuod-rip-en' -at) [quadri, four ; penna, 



wing]. In biology, having four functional wings. 

 Quadriphyllous (kwod-rif-W -us) [quadri, four ; (pv?.- 



leafj. In biology, having four leaves. 

 Quadripulmonary (kivod - rip - ul'- mo - na - re) [quadri, 

 four; pulmon, lung]. In biology, applied to such 

 spiders as have four pulmonary sacs. 

 QuadTiia.d\3ite(k2t>od-re-ra / -de-dt)[quadri, four ; radius, 



rav]. In biology, four-rayed. 

 Quadriseptate (kzvod-ris-ep/ -tat) [quadri, four ; septum, 



a partition]. In biology, having four septa. 

 Quadriserial (kwod-ris-e' -re-al) [quadri, four; series, 

 a row]. In biology, arranged in four rows or series ; 

 tetrastichous. 

 Quadrisetose \kwod '- ris - e' '- toz) [quadri, four; sarta, 

 a bristle]. In biology, having four setae, or 

 bristles. 

 Quadrispiral (kwod-ris-pi' -ral) [quadri, four; spira, 



coil]. In biology, having four spirals. 

 Quadrisulcate (kwod-ris-ul f -kat) [quadri, four ; sulcus, 

 a furrow] . In biology, having four grooves, or fur- 

 rows. 

 Quadrituberculate (kiuod-rit-u-ber'-ku-lat) [quadri, 

 four; tuberculum, tubercle]. Having four tubercles. 

 Quadriurate {kwod-re-u' -rat) [quadri, four; ovpov, 

 urine]. A term applied to the mixed urates of the 

 lateritious deposits of urine. 

 Quadrivalent (kwod-riv'- al- ent) [quadri, four; 

 us, power]. Having a quadruple chemic valence ; 

 having a combining power equivalent to that of four 

 hydrogen atoms. 

 Quadrivalvular (kwod-riv-al' -vu-lar) [quadri, four ; 

 ■, a valve]. In biology, having four valves, as 

 certain pericarps. 

 Quadrivoltine (kivod-riv-ol' -tin) [quadri, four ; volta, 

 turn, time]. Applied to such silkworms as yield four 

 crops of cocoons a year. 

 Quadroon. See Mulatto. 



Quadrumana \kwod-ru'-man-ah) [quadri, four; 

 mauus, a hand]. Formerly, an order of mammalia, 

 including monkeys, apes, etc. The term is now 

 mostly used merely as a descriptive word, 

 ^uadrumanous (kivod - ru'- man -tis) [quadri, four; 

 manus, hand]. Having four hands. Pertaining to 

 the Quadrumana. 

 Quadruped (kivod' -ru-ped) [quadri, four ; pes, foot]. 

 In biology, having four ambulatory limbs, as distin- 

 guished from aliped and biped. Cf. quadrumanous. 

 Quadruple (kivod' '-ru-pl) [quadruplare, to make four- 

 fold]. Four-fold. 

 Quadruplet (kivod- ru'-plet) [quadruplare, to make four- 

 fold]. Any one of four children brought forth at one 

 birth. 

 Juain's Fatty Heart. That form of fatty heart in which 

 the muscular fiber is replaced by fatty tissue. See 

 Diseases, Table of. 

 Quaker Button. A popular name for JVux Vomica. 

 Qualitative (kivol' -it-a-tiv) [qualitas\ Pertaining to 



quality. Q. Analysis. See Analysis. 

 Jualitive {kwol' -it-iv). See Qualitative. 

 Juantation (kwon-ta' -shun ) [quantus, how great]. 

 The determination of quantity, or volume, as in obser- 

 vations regarding specific gravity. 

 Quantitative (kwon' -tit-a-tiv) [quantus, how much]. 

 Pertaining to quantity. Q. Analysis. See Analysis. 

 Juantitive (kivon'-til-iv). Same as Quantitative. 

 ^uantivalence (kwon-tiv' -al-ens) [quantus, how much ; 

 valere, to be able]. The chemic strength of an ele- 

 ment or radicle expressed in terms of the number of 

 atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite. Univalent 



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or monad atoms, as chlorin, C1-, are saturated with 

 one atom. Bivalent or dyad atoms, as oxygen, -O— , 

 require two. Trivalent or triad atoms, as Boron, 



I 

 — B — , take three. Tetrazalent or tetrad atoms, as 



carbon, — C — , take four, etc. Nitrogen is a pentad, 



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 and sulphur a hexad. 



Quarantine (kwor 1 -an-ten) [It. , quaranta, forty]. The 

 time (formerly forty days) during which a vessel 

 from ports infected with contagious or epidemic dis- 

 eases is required by law to remain outside the port of 

 its destination, as a safeguard against the spreading of 

 such disease. Also, the place of detention. Q., Land, 

 the isolation of a person or district on land for similar 

 purposes. Q. Period, the length of time required to 

 insure immunity after exposure, or the length of time 

 necessary after an attack, to render the disease innocu- 

 ous. 



Quart (kivort) [quartus, fourth] . The fourth part of a 

 gallon. 



Quartan (kwor' -tan) [quartus, fourth]. Recurring on 

 the fourth day (both days of occurrence being reck- 

 oned). A form of intermittent fever, the paroxysms 

 of which occur every fourth day. Q., Double, milder 

 and severer paroxysms occurring alternately, with a 

 day between, — a severe one the first day, a milder one 

 the second, then a free day, followed by a severe par- 

 oxysm on the fourth day. 



Quarter-crack. In farriery, a fissure of the hoof on the 

 inner side of the fore-foot of a horse. 



Quarter- evil ( kwor* '-ter-e 1 '-vil). An infectious disease 

 of cattle, prevalent during the summer months, and 

 characterized by the appearance of irregular emphyse- 

 matous swellings of the subcutaneous tissue and mus- 

 cles, especially over the quarters, hence the name : it 

 is also called — Symptomatic Anthrax, Black- Leg. Fr. , 

 "Cfiarbon symptomatique." Ger., Rauschbrand. See 

 Bacillus chauvizi, Bollinger and Feser, under Bac- 

 teria, Synonymatic Table of, and also Black-leg. 



Quarteroon, Quarteronne (kwor-ter-oon'). See Mu- 

 latto. 



Quartine (kwar'-tin) [quartus, fourth]. In biology, a 

 fourth integument, counting from the outside. 



Quartipara (favor-tip' -ar-ah) [quartus, fourth ; parere, 

 to bring forth]. A woman in her fourth pregnancy. 



Quartz (kworts). See Silica. 



Quassation (kivas-a'-shttn) [quassatio, a shaking or 

 shattering]. The reduction of barks, roots, and other 

 drugs to morsels in preparation for further pharma- 

 ceutic treatment ; cassation. 



Quassia (kwosh'-e-ah) [after Quassi, a negro slave in 

 Surinam]. I. The wood of Picrama excelsa, native 

 to the W. Indies and other tropical regions. It is a 

 bitter stomachic tonic. Dose gr. xx-xxx. Q.-cup, 

 a cup made of quassia wood, called also bitter-cup, 

 from which water may be drunk, the bitter principles 

 becoming dissolved in the water. Q., Ext. Its 

 properties are due to a bitter principle, quassin, Qj- 

 H„0 9 . Dose gr. j-iij. Q., Fid. Ext. Dose .^ss-j. 

 Q., Infus., quassia chips qj, water 3 x. Dose ^j- 

 iij. Q., Tinct., 10 per cent, in strength. Dose 

 TTLv-^j. 2. Originally, as still in France and Ger- 

 many, the wood of Quassia amara was the official 

 quassia ; the therapeutic properties of this tree and its 

 wood are much the same as those of the ordinary 

 quassia of commerce. 



Quassin [kwos'-in) [after Quassi, a negro slave in 

 Surinam]. The active principle of quassia. 



Quaternary (kwa-ter'-na-re) [quaterni, four each]. 

 Consisting of four. Q. Union or Structure, an old 



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