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Colic vs Reflux - What's the difference?

colic | reflux |

In pathology terms the difference between colic and reflux

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 reflux is the leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

As an adjective colic

is relating to the colon; colonic.

As a verb reflux is

to boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.

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.

    • reflux

    English

    (wikipedia reflux)

    Noun

    (es)
  • the backwards flow of any fluid
  • * 1719-
    • ...after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco...
  • (chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period
  • (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus

    • Derived terms

    * gastroesophageal reflux * nonreflux * reflux condenser * refluxate

    Verb

  • To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser