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Hectic fever

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(Med.) a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

See also: Hectic



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But some are baked, when smothered they do die: Some meat he doth by hectic fevers fry.
It is also useful in the treatment of severe bronchitis, asthma and hectic fever (Kirtikar and Basu, 1975), and is used by the local tribal people to cause abortion; paste is applied for curing abdominal swellings, sore throat, mucous disorders and fever (Asolkar et al.
That weekend she had gone to a back-street abortionist, and had ended up with an infected womb, hectic fever, yellow eyes, painful tummy, dehydration, and she was at death's door with a great proportion of her red cells having changed from round to spiky, sickle-shape and causing very severe joint pains.
 
 
 
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