• IPA: /ˈkɒl.ɪk/

colic

1. (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
   • c. 1597, [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fovrth; […], quarto edition, London: Printed by P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, OCLC 932916628 ↗, [Act III, scene i] ↗:

     Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.

2. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.

• French: colique
• German: Kolik
• Italian: colica
• Portuguese: cólica
• Russian: ко́лика
• Spanish: cólico

colic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

• French: colique
• Portuguese: cólico