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
According to the University of Minnesota, horses and other equines are naturally prone to colic.
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
She had her a baby girl with the colic and the only thing that stopped the hurting was to hold her.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
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
These seeds are recommended as a carminative, in flatulent colics proceeding from a cold cause or a viscidity of the juices.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
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
And therefore phlegm and colics make a man A most indecent guest.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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