Of an illness, esp. a fever: that does not develop or resolve rapidly; chronic. Now chiefly historical.

Belonging to or symptomatic of the bodily condition or habit: applied to that kind of fever which accompanies consumption or other wasting diseases…

That remits or has remissions; remittent.

As a postmodifier: designating an intermittent fever that recurs on alternate days; = tertian, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

= hectic, adj. (literal and figurative.)

= hectic, adj.

Chiefly Medicine. (Of a disease or symptom) that remits; spec. designating a fever in which the patient's temperature periodically rises and falls…

Not putrid: applied to a fever.

spec. in Medicine. Of a disease: Occurring during the progress of another disease. Also, Recurring at intervals. Formerly (of a fever), Happening…

Agitated with or as with heat; boiling, burning. Usually figurative.

Designating fevers believed to arise in distended or irritated blood vessels.

Med. Of or belonging to anabasis; augmenting, increasing (as a fever).

Medicine. Of a disease or condition: not presenting the usual diagnostic signs and symptoms; concealed, esp. by the presence of another disease.

pertaining to or affected with hyperpyrexia n.

see hyperpyrexia n.

= hyperpyretic adj.