Hectic

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Hectic fever.

2. A hectic flush. It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. Byron.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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.