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Quickening       the first feeling by a pregnant woman of movement of the baby in her uterus. It usually occurs between 16 and 20 weeks of pregnancy.

 

Quinine  /kwí'nín/     a white, bitter, crystal-like alkaloid. It is made from cinchona bark and used in antimalaria drugs.

 

Quotid     (a.d.)       in prescriptions, abbreviation for quaque die, a Latin phrase meaning "every day."