Definition of Colics

1. Noun. (plural of colic) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colics

1. colic [n] - See also: colic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colics

colical
colichemarde
colichemardes
colicin
colicin factors
colicine
colicines
colicinogeny
colicins
colickier
colickiest
colicky
colicoplegia
colicroot
colicroots
colics (current term)
colicweed
colicweeds
colies
coliform
coliform bacilli
coliform bacteria
coliforms
colimit
colimitation
colimits
colimycin
colin
colinear
colinearities

Literary usage of Colics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"These include; (1) the colics which appear to accompany postoperative distention of ... These colics may persist for some weeks or months, but as a rule, ..."

2. Pain: Its Origin, Conduction, Perception and Diagnostic Significance by Richard Joseph Behan (1914)
"INVOLUNTARY MUSCLES colics. —Thus far only voluntary muscles have been ... Of all colics, perhaps, that of the common gall-duct is the most severe. ..."

3. International Clinics; a Quarterly of Clinical Lectures. (1901)
"THE MEDICAL PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF RECURRENT HEPATIC colics. ... Hepatic colics are of every-day occurrence, and give rise to therapeutic indications and ..."

4. Veterinary Elements: A Manual for Agricultural Students and Stockmen by Arthur George Hopkins (1901)
"... usually of short duration it is not thought much of by the average owner, yet we find that the colics of long duration are often quite dangerous, ..."

5. Hydropathy; Or The Cold Water Cure, as Practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at by R. T. Claridge (1842)
"The sudorific process and half-baths are of remarkable efficacy. colics. These always give way to sitz-baths, fomentations, or bandages on the abdomen, ..."

6. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"German physicians make much use of Juniper in gastric complaints, in abdominal flatulence, colics, ..."

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