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Hectic vs Traumatic - What's the difference?

hectic | traumatic |

As adjectives the difference between hectic and traumatic

is that hectic is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin while traumatic is traumatic.

As a noun hectic

is (obsolete) a hectic fever.

hectic

English

Alternative forms

* hectick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
  • hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
  • Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
  • The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

    Synonyms

    * feverish

    Derived terms

    * hectically

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A hectic fever.
  • (obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
  • For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].

    traumatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, caused by, or causing trauma
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic' symplegia, that's it. This cat has ' traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.}}
  • * 2011 , September 18, Don Thompson and Ken Ritter, “Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact”, Associated Press:
  • "I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department. "It was traumatic ."
  • (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
  • (Coxe)
  • (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
  • (Wiseman)
  • Produced by wounds.
  • traumatic tetanus

    Antonyms

    * non-traumatic * nontraumatic * untraumatic

    Derived terms

    * traumatic amenorrhea * traumatic amputation * traumatic anesthesia * traumatic arrest * traumatic asphyxia * traumatic brain injury

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, medicine) A medicine for wounds; a vulnerary.