colic
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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
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
Horses that can’t stand are at increased risk for complications such as pressure sores, colic and pneumonia.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
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
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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
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
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
He cites many cases of renal and hepatic colics, diabetes, migraine, etc., which, although rebellious to all other treatments for years, soon yielded to the green coffee infusion.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
Mr. Slater, it seemed, was a creature of many ills, the wretched abiding-place of aches and pains, of colics, cramps, and rheumatism.
From The Iron Trail by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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