Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Colic.
- noun A colic artery; a branch of a superior or inferior mesenteric artery, supplying the colon and the sigmoid flexure of the rectum.
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Examples
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The Left Colic Artery (a. colica sinistra) runs to the left behind the peritoneum and in front of the Psoas major, and after a short, but variable, course divides into an ascending and a descending branch; the stem of the artery or its branches cross the left ureter and left internal spermatic vessels.
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The Right Colic Artery (a. colica dextra) arises from about the middle of the concavity of the superior mesenteric artery, or from a stem common to it and the ileocolic.
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The Middle Colic Artery (a. colica media) arises from the superior mesenteric just below the pancreas and, passing downward and forward between the layers of the transverse mesocolon, divides into two branches, right and left; the former anastomoses with the right colic; the latter with the left colic, a branch of the inferior mesenteric.
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The _colica media_ separates into two branches, one of which is sent to the right portion of the transverse colon, the other to the left.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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It also destroys plumbers, and house-painters, and in them seems a substitute for the colica saturnina.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Animals in great pain, as in the colica saturnina, are said to bite the ground they lie upon, and even their own flesh.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Thus also in the bellon, or colica saturnina, the patients are said to bite their own flesh, and dogs in this disease to bite up the ground they lie upon.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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This association is not easily accounted for, but is analogous in some degree to the paralysis of the muscles of the arms in colica saturnina.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Some authors have advised to join cathartic medicines with an opiate in inflammation of the bowels, as recommended in colica saturnina.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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She was then seized with the colica saturnina, lost the use of her wrists, and gradually sunk under a general debility.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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