colic

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: F. colique, fr. L. colicus sick with the colic, Gr. …, fr. …, …, the colon. The disease is so named from its being seated in or near the colon. See Colon.

Medicine 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.

1. Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. John Milton

2. Anatomy Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54