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colic

[kol-ik] / ˈkɒl ɪk /


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I was lucky to get to lean on the mothers on set and ask them questions like, “How does this feel when you’re breastfeeding? What is colic actually like? What are your hormones?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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

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

The neighbor who tries to one-up your saga of seizures with a story about her son’s colic.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2024

He couldn’t stand by and watch a horse colic or a cow labor with a breech calf even though it meant personal ruin.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

To these, in the end, may be added, loss of appetite, paleness, emaciation, weakness, cough, and consumption; or colics, worms, and convulsions.

From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

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

They are principally recommended in female weaknesses, in hysteric disorders, and in flatulent colics.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury

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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