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Dec 1, 2009
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sex•tan



Pronunciation: (sek'stun), [key]
adj.
(of a fever) characterized by paroxysms that recurevery sixth day.

n.
a sextan fever.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

sextainSextans
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