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🧪 From bile 🤢 With stomach pain 😖 Severe stomach pain
cholic

cholic

9.5
Has sudden severe stomach pain that causes crying or discomfort
  • adjective
  • /ˈkōlik/
  • Archaic
translation icon : cólico
  • Parents often worry when their baby becomes cholic and cannot be comforted.

Examples

  • A cholic episode can cause severe discomfort and sleepless nights for both child and parents.

  • The doctor examined the cholic infant who had been crying for hours.

  • The baby is cholic.

  • Don't look so cholic!

  • The doctor examined the cholic infant who had been crying for hours.

  • Parents often worry when their baby becomes cholic and cannot be comforted.

  • A cholic episode can cause severe discomfort and sleepless nights for both child and parents.

Synonyms

colicky
vscholic
5 8.2

Having sudden strong stomach pains from gas, often in babies who cry a lot

is used for any age rather than mainly for infants

Compounds

cholic acid
  • Specialized
1 6.5

A substance in bile that helps break down fats in the intestine

How Painful

agonized
  • US
6.3
cholic
  • Archaic
9.5
uneasy
98 3.2
comfortable
494 1.0

Surface Forms

cholic positive

Morphology

cholic = colic (opaque) = chol + ic

Although this sense describes being 'suffering from colic', the form 'chol-' is a specialised combining form and the link to 'colic' is not morphologically regular for general learners.

Etymology

Cholic (meaning suffering from colic) comes from the word colic, which goes back to a root meaning the 'colon' or large intestine, so it describes someone with strong tummy cramps. That's why a cholic baby is one who has painful 'stomach' cramps.