colic vs pang

colic

noun
  • 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 such symptoms. 

  • Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions. 

adj
  • Relating to the colon; colonic. 

pang

noun
  • A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. 

  • A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. 

verb
  • To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. 

  • simple past tense of ping 

How often have the words colic and pang occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )