Colic

{kol’-ik) [/co/U/cdc, pertaining to the colon]. I. Pertaining to the colon. 2. A severe griping pain in the bowels, due to spasm of the intestinal walls; also any severe spasmodic pain in the abdomen. C, Biliary, that due to the pa age of a gall-stone through the gall ducts. C, Devons hire. Synonym of C, Lead. C, Hepatic. See C, Biliary. C, Lead, or C, Saturnine, Colica pictonum, painter ’s colic. Intestinal colic due to lead-poisoning. It is characterized by excruciating abdominal pain, a hard and retracted condition of the abdomen, slow pulse, and increased arterial tension. C, Menstrual, the pain of menstruation. C, Renal, due to the presence of a calculus in the ureter. C, Uterine, colic-like pains experienced at the menstrual epochs, often coming on in paroxysms. 199