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RENAL COLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renal colic mean? 

RENAL COLIC (noun)
  The noun RENAL COLIC has 1 sense:

1. sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the ureterplay

  Familiarity information: RENAL COLIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RENAL COLIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the ureter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("renal colic" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)


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