hectic

1. a. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush. Source: opted

2. a. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. Source: opted

3. n. Hectic fever. Source: opted

4. n. A hectic flush. Source: opted

5. adj. marked by intense agitation or emotion Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

7. j:100 s marked by intense agitation or emotion Source: ecdict

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