What does "hectic" mean?
Hectic: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.(Med.) Hectic fever.
- 3.A hectic flush. It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. Byron.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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