renal colic

1. 1.

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

   Broaderpain

Questions about renal colic

What does renal colic mean?

renal colic means "sharp pain in the lower back that radiates into the groin; associated with the passage of a renal calculus through the ureter".

Is renal colic a common word?

renal colic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.