hectic

kiihkeä, hektinen Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.

hectic fever; a hectic patient

She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret ...

The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills ....