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itutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. Arbuthnot.

wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.