Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HEC'TIC
HEC'TIC, or HEC'TIC-ALHEC'TIC-AL-LY
HEC'TIC, n.
An exacerbating and remitting fever, with stages of chilliness, heat and sweat, variously intermixed; exacerbation chiefly in the evening; the sweats mostly in the night; pulse weak; urine with a natant furfuraceous cloud.
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