colic
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Former Grand National winner Noble Yeats has died aged 11 following a bout of colic.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Children of mothers with untreated depression had a higher risk of developing digestive conditions, including nausea and vomiting, functional constipation, colic, and irritable bowel syndrome.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 17, 2026
Eli had been lying down for hours in his stall yesterday in Trabuco Canyon, unable to stand and suffering from painful colic that would have been fatal if he remained down too long.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
The neighbor who tries to one-up your saga of seizures with a story about her son’s colic.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2024
For example, we say a baby with colic is colicky.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
My daughter had colics and my husband and I worked it out without any of these ridicules expensive whatever they are....
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
If this should be observed even on Saturday night and Sunday, there would be fewer cases of "Monday morning sickness," such as colics and lymphangitis.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
He cites many cases of renal and hepatic colics, diabetes, migraine, etc., which, although rebellious to all other treatments for years, soon yielded to the green coffee infusion.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
Among them there is never gout in the hands or feet, nor catarrh, nor sciatica, nor grievous colics, nor flatulency, nor hard breathing.
From The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella
Intestinal obstruction, thrombo-embolic colics, unthriftiness and a weakened, anaemic condition may be caused by intestinal worms.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
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