colic

noun
🔊/ˈkɒlɪk/
🔊/ˈkɑːlɪk/
[uncountable]
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  1. severe pain in the stomach and bowels, suffered especially by babies(尤指婴儿的)急性腹痛,腹绞痛Topics Illnessc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • biliary
    • renal
    • infantile
    … of colic
    • attack
    • bout
    verb + colic
    • have
    • suffer from
    • develop
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French colique, from late Latin colicus, from colon from Greek kōlon ‘limb, clause’.