Hectic vs Traumatic - What's the difference?
hectic | traumatic |
Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
(obsolete) A hectic fever.
(obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
of, caused by, or causing trauma
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* 2011 , September 18, Don Thompson and Ken Ritter, “Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact”, Associated Press:
(medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
(dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
Produced by wounds.
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
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Alternative forms
* hectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
- The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Synonyms
* feverishDerived terms
* hecticallyNoun
(en noun)- For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].
External links
* *traumatic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "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 ."
- (Coxe)
- (Wiseman)
- traumatic tetanus
