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
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
Horses that can’t stand are at increased risk for complications such as pressure sores, colic and pneumonia.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
“The baby got the colic and passed right after we got here. It’s just me and Thomas right now. Were getting by, barely.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
The first, in date, in her affections had been a green parrot, which, having been so imprudent as to eat some parsley, fell a victim to frightful colics.
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
Ah! just my case when I pined for my poor dear Dolly! when she used to have her daily colics, and her little doctor be sent for.
From St. Patrick's day, or, the scheming lieutenant : a farce in one act by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In fact, frost-bitten peanut vines are harmful, rather than beneficial, to stock, often causing colics, and endangering the life of a valuable horse or mule.
From The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses by B. W. Jones
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