Hectic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Hectic fever.

II. Hectic ·noun A hectic flush.

III. Hectic ·adj In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.

IV. Hectic ·adj Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.