"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).
雙語例句
1. Colic describes a whole variety of conditions in which a horse suffers abdominal pain.
絞痛包括引起馬匹腹部疼痛的各種病癥。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The doctor said it was colic and that she would grow out of it.
醫(yī)生說她患的是腹絞痛，長大了就沒事了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The pain of biliary colic is occasionally in the epigastrium.