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
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
First day I walk in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic, fighting that bottle like it’s a rotten turnip.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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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
So we find founders, congestive colics, and staggers more frequent in summer than in winter.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Annixter—after the two had exchanged greetings—complained of terrific colics all the preceding night.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
Among them there is never gout in the hands or feet, no catarrh, nor sciatica, nor grievous colics, nor flatulency, nor hard breathing.
From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More
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
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