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
Yuko Miyahara, a representative for Urara’s longtime care facility Matha Farm in the southeast Chiba prefecture of Japan, confirmed to Japanese outlet Friday Digital that the animal athlete died early Tuesday of colic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
The long summer-time always gave Bubber the colic.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
Occasional colics may result from these "stomach stones," and when the latter lodge at the outlet of the stomach they may give rise to symptoms of engorged stomach, already described.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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
Sore eyes, and colics, are the most usual disorders among them.
As they marched through the heat and dust of that June day, many succumbed to the temptations and paid for their appetites with inordinately violent colics that night.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
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