colic
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ɪk noun
1.
paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels.
adjective
2.
pertaining to or affecting the colon or the bowels.
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| a condition characterized by acute spasmodic abdominal pain, esp that caused by inflammation, distention, etc, of the gastrointestinal tract | |
| [C15: from Old French colique, from Late Latin cōlicus ill with colic, from Greek kōlon, variant of kolon | |
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Word Origin & History
colic
c.1421, from L.L. colicus "pertaining to colic," from Gk. kolikos, belonging to the kolon "lower intestine" (see colon).
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Medical Dictionary
colic col·ic (kŏl'ĭk)
n.
Spasmodic pains in the abdomen.
Paroxysms of pain with crying and irritability in young infants, due to a variety of causes, such as swallowing air, emotional upset, or overfeeding.
Relating to the colon.
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Science Dictionary
colic (kŏl'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
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Example sentences
The stabling includes a solarium, paddocks where horses graze and spring water warmed to avoid colic and other problems.
You're through the colic and the round-the-clock feedings and you even have something that resembles a schedule.
In many ways, colic is still as much of a mystery to medical science as it is to the parents who must endure it.
The owner tried to get her up by whipping her on orders from a veterinarian, who suspected that she had colic.
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