renal colic
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- noun
- /ˈrɛnəl ˈkɒlɪk/
- Specialized
:
cólico renal
- The second patient, a Caucasian woman, presented in 1959 with right renal colic (aged 34).
- episode of renal colic
Examples
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He experienced severe renal colic that made it difficult for him to move.
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You had a real nasty renal colic last night.
Fiction book (1994) -
Six years later, after another episode of renal colic, dRTA was diagnosed (Table 1).
Academic text (1996) -
Routine use of tamsulosin for ED patients with renal colic caused by small (4 mm) distal stones likely has no value.
Blog text (1) -
A 36-year-old Latin American man with recurrent nephrolithiasis treated with repeated lithotripsy was found to have hypercalcemia during an episode of renal colic.
Academic text (1995) -
During her visit to the hospital, the doctor explained the symptoms of renal colic to her.
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After several hours of unbearable pain, he realized he was suffering from renal colic caused by a kidney stone.
Synonyms
Pain in the kidney that you feel in the lower back
Antonyms
How Painful
Surface Forms
Morphology
renal + colic
The phrase combines 'renal' (kidney-related) with 'colic' (spasmodic/cramping pain), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to severe cramping pain originating in the kidneys or ureter. This is a straightforward medical adjective+noun composition (common cross-linguistically), making the meaning directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Renal colic links renal ('kidney') and colic ('a sudden, severe cramp'). Picture a small stone moving down the tube that carries urine from the kidney and making a sudden, sharp cramp. So renal colic means the severe, cramping pain you get when a kidney stone moves.