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Colic vs Cramp - What's the difference?

colic | cramp |

As nouns the difference between colic and cramp

is that colic is severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems) while cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.

As an adjective colic

is relating to the colon; colonic.

As a verb cramp is

(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.

colic

English

(wikipedia colic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems).
  • A medicinal plant used to relieve one of such symptoms.

    • Derived terms

    * colicky

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to the colon; colonic.

    • cramp

    English

    (wikipedia cramp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
  • * Sir T. More
    • The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
  • That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  • * L'Estrange
    • A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
  • * Cowper
    • crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
  • A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
  • A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

    • Derived terms

    * brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's cramp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
  • To prohibit movement or expression.
    • You're cramping my style.
  • * Layard
    • The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
  • To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
    • You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
  • * Ford
    • when the gout cramps my joints
  • To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
  • (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
  • * Burke
    • The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
  • To form on a cramp.
    • to cramp boot legs

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