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's got you so bewitched that one of these days I'm going to see you twisting around with colic and with a toad in your belly.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
If this should be observed even on Saturday night and Sunday, there would be fewer cases of "Monday morning sickness," such as colics and lymphangitis.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
L. E. D.—These are in the number of the four greater hot seeds; and frequently employed as a stomachic and carminative in flatulent colics, and the like.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
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
No man was ever afflicted with such convenient maladies as Phelim; even his sprains, tooth-aches, and colics seemed to have entered into the Whiteboy system.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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