Thesaurus: hectic

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1. a. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
2. a. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
3. n. Hectic fever.
4. n. A hectic flush.
5. adj. marked by intense agitation or emotion
6. 1. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush. 2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption. 1. (Med.) Hectic fever. 2. A hectic flush. It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. Byron.
7. j:100 s marked by intense agitation or emotion