Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Colic   Listen
adjective
Colic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
2.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.



noun
Colic  n.  (Med.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct.
Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas.
Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning.
Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter.
Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Colic" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the very ghosts no longer walked In comfort, at their own aerial ease, But were all rammed, and jammed (but to be balked, As we shall see), and jostled hands and knees, Like wind compressed and pent within a bladder, Or like a human colic, which is sadder.[hh] ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... soup get cold," he continued. "Chevassat said a few words to his coachman, who whipped the horse, and there he was, promenading down the boulevard, turning his cane this way, puffing out big clouds of smoke, as if he had not the colic at the thought that his friend Bagnolet was ...
— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau

... always regulates the Stomach and Bowels. No Sour-Curd or Wind-Colic; no Feverishness or Diarrhoea; no Congestion or Worms, and no Cross Children or worn-out Mothers ...
— The Nursery, No. 165. September, 1880, Vol. 28 - A Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers • Various

... as a dull, heavy ache, which gradually changes into a sharp, darting pain, and which culminates at last in distinct and positive attacks of uterine colic, ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham

... peddler; "no doubt a colic or a chill, taken in this villainous cold weather. I have a draught here that acts like a charm in all such cases. If you will permit me, I will mix it for you in a stoup of hot spiced wine, and I warrant he will sleep like a dormouse all night, and wake in ...
— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com