Word Meanings - BELLYACHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pain in the bowels; colic.

Related words: (words related to BELLYACHE)

• COLICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic. Swift.
• COLIC
  A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile
• COLICKY
  Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
• COLICROOT
  A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike . Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
• TRICHOSCOLICES
  An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
• EPICOLIC
  Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.
• ILEOCOLIC
  Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocæcal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.
• UNDECOLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C11H18O2, of the propiolic acid series, obtained indirectly from undecylenic acid as a white crystalline substance.
• BUCOLIC
  Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
• BUCOLICAL
  Bucolic.
• ANTISCOLETIC; ANTISCOLIC
  Anthelmintic.
• INTRACOLIC
  Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.
• GASTROCOLIC
  Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.
• GLYCOLIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid. Glycolic acid , an organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape , and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation