Colic

Colic

Colic (from Greek kolikos, relative to the colon) is a form of pain which starts and stops abruptly. Types include:

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Famous quotes containing the word colic:

    “Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
    In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
    Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
    By the imprisoning of unruly wind
    Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving,
    Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down
    Steeples and moss-grown towers.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)