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Definition of Colicky
1. Adjective. Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal.
Similar to: Unhealthy
Derivative terms: Colic, Flatulence, Flatulency, Gas
Definition of Colicky
1. a. Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
Definition of Colicky
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from colic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colicky
1. pertaining to or associated with colic [adj COLICKIER, COLICKIEST]
Medical Definition of Colicky
1. Denoting or resembling the pain of colic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colicky
Literary usage of Colicky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abdominal Pain by Norbert Ortner, Alfred P. Luger (1922)
"... characterized by sudden, intense, but rather continuous pains. colicky pains
are comparatively rare. Real colicky pains will make us think first of ..."
2. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"Cramps in the abdomen ; violent, colicky, drawing- cutting pains in the abdomen ;
abdomen drawn in ; colic not increased by pressure; violent spasms in ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1906)
"He complained of colicky pains in the abdomen, the temperature had gone up 100,
and the pulse was no. The median incision, though healed, looked a little ..."
4. Pain; Its Causation and Diagnostic Significance in Internal Diseases by Rudolph Schmidt, Karl Max Vogel (1908)
"colicky PAINS.—The classification of pains from the standpoint of their quality,
as a rule, has but little practical diagnostic value. ..."
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