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colic

[kol-ik] / ˈkɒl ɪk /


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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

The daughter of Uncle Mo was euthanized on July 15 after complications from colic, a gastrointestinal issue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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

I do not know its range at lethal setting, but I had not been far out of it, for I was doubled up like a baby with colic.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

"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

Intestinal obstruction, thrombo-embolic colics, unthriftiness and a weakened, anaemic condition may be caused by intestinal worms.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.

Not only were there many cases of severe angina, but other forms of neuralgia, and severe colics, were observed in others of the crew.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

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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