Biliary Colic

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
BC
Pronunciation
/ˈbɪljəri ˈkɒlɪk/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. In the gallbladder, stones may cause inflammation or produce no symptoms. A stone obstructing the bile duct causes severe pain ( biliary colic ).
  2. Treatment of biliary colic with Yin-Chen-Hau-Tang in plaster by transdermal delivery
  3. Of 182 cases with recurrence of cholecystolithiasis, 94 remained asymptomatic, 80 stated nonspecific upper gastrointestinal symptoms and 8 had abdominal pain or biliary colic, of which 38 were treated with cholecystectomy.
  4. The paper reports 6 cases of calculous cholecystitis accompanied with coronary heart disease, All of them had angina attacks before cholecystectomy, And angina was often induced by biliary colic.
  5. There was onset of cholecystitis and biliary colic in 4 patients at 6 and 12 months after operation respectively, 3 patients received cholecystectomy in emergency, one patient recovered without operation.

Other meanings of BC