Associations to the word «Colic»

Wiktionary

COLIC, noun. (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems).
COLIC, noun. A medicinal plant used to relieve one of such symptoms.
COLIC, adjective. Relating to the colon; colonic.

Dictionary definition

COLIC, noun. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne