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hectic
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tags: [obsolete] [pathosis]
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Definition:a fever connected with tuberculosis, and showing itself by a bright-pink flush on the cheekslicensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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His face lengthens, grows pale and bearded, with sunken eyes, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F. Taylor
James Joyce. Ulysses (1922)
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Groholsky, pale, with hectic flushes on his cheeks, was lying in the attitude of a man at his last gasp and moaning.
Anton Chekhov. The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov: A Story WIthout an End (1880-1903)
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she had been hectic and dropsical a good while, and was now at Bath, in order to drink the waters for the recovery of her health;
Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Roderick Random (1749)
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For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
And thou must cure me.
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