colic

• cholick (archaic)
• cholic (archaic)

Borrowed from French colique. Ultimately derived from Ancient Greek κωλικός (kōlikós, “suffering in the colon”, adj).

• enPR: kŏlĭk

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪk

colic (countable and uncountable, plural colics)

1. (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
   • c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.

2. Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions.
3. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.

colic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

• colic weed (colicweed)

Borrowed from French colique.

colic m or n (feminine singular colică, masculine plural colici, feminine and neuter plural colice)

1. (anatomy, relational) colon; colic