HECTIC
\hˈɛktɪk], \hˈɛktɪk], \h_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of HECTIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
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In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
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Hectic fever.
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A hectic flush.
By Oddity Software
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Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.
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In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.
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A hectic flush.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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Constitutional; slow, but of long continuance; pertaining to the fever that accompanies tuberculosis; feverish.
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A fever accompanying tuberculosis.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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HECTICALLY.
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A habitual or remittent fever, usually associated with consumption.
By Daniel Lyons
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HECTICALLY.
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Constitutional.
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Consumptive.
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A fever connected with some organic disease, as consumption.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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