"disease characterized by severe abdominal pain," early 15c., from Late Latin colicus "pertaining to colic," from Greek kolikos, belonging to the kolon "lower intestine" (see colon (n.2)). The word was used in English late 14c. as an adjective, "affecting the colon." Related: Colicky (1742).
双语例句
1. Colic describes a whole variety of conditions in which a horse suffers abdominal pain.
绞痛包括引起马匹腹部疼痛的各种病症。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The doctor said it was colic and that she would grow out of it.
医生说她患的是腹绞痛，长大了就没事了。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The pain of biliary colic is occasionally in the epigastrium.
