colic
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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
A mum whose baby daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour, after her symptoms were dismissed as colic and reflux for more than two months, is calling for better awareness of the condition.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
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
And when he read his paper of an evening, Demi’s colic got into the shipping list and Daisy’s fall affected the price of stocks, for Mrs. Brooke was only interested in domestic news.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
No man was ever afflicted with such convenient maladies as Phelim; even his sprains, tooth-aches, and colics seemed to have entered into the Whiteboy system.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
I goes reggler, an' I'm first in the School, and I knows more colics than any of 'em, excep' teachers.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 by Various
"Ah, that's a dirty business—fever, vomiting, colics; old man, I was ill with that lot!"
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
When the active cause has been irritant plants, abdominal tenderness, colics, and other signs of bowel inflammation are marked features.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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