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colic

[kol-ik] / ˈkɒl ɪk /


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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

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

Eli was experiencing life-threatening colic, the agency said on X. Station 18 stepped in when the mule’s owners were unable to get him to stand.

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

“I have never had a cold or flu. I have never had jaundice. I have never suffered from colic or indigestion.”

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

If a family or two get hold of some ill-conditioned meat, and suffer for it, the groans of their colics are echoed all over the land.

From Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 by Various

Recurring colics of the type of impaction colic, but more severe, may lead one to suspect the existence of this condition.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

"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



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