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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sciatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
nerve
▪ Female speaker It's an agonising burning, which goes down my buttocks and sciatic nerve.
▪ The frag there cut my sciatic nerve.
▪ Studies on purified rat sciatic nerve Schwann cells have shown that proliferation invitro depends on mitogenic factors.
▪ Pressure or irritation of the sciatic nerve roots in the lower neck area.
▪ There are two sciatic nerves, one to each leg, and they're the biggest nerves in the body.
▪ But sometimes the sciatic nerve can become irritated by a lack of blood supply.
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▪ the sciatic nerve
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But sometimes the sciatic nerve can become irritated by a lack of blood supply.
▪ Female speaker It's an agonising burning, which goes down my buttocks and sciatic nerve.
▪ Pressure or irritation of the sciatic nerve roots in the lower neck area.
▪ Studies on purified rat sciatic nerve Schwann cells have shown that proliferation invitro depends on mitogenic factors.
▪ The frag there cut my sciatic nerve.
▪ There are two sciatic nerves, one to each leg, and they're the biggest nerves in the body.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sciatic

Sciatic \Sci*at"ic\, a. [F. sciatique, LL. sciaticus, from L. ischiadicus, Gr. ?. See Ischiadic.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.

Sciatic

Sciatic \Sci*at"ic\, n. [Cf. F. sciatique.] (Med.) Sciatica.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sciatic

"pertaining to the hip," also in reference to the large nerve from the pelvis to the thigh, 1540s, from Middle French sciatique (14c.), from Medieval Latin sciaticus (see sciatica).

Wiktionary
sciatic

a. 1 Of, or relating to the ischium. 2 Of, or relating to sciatica.

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sciatic

  1. adj. relating to or caused by or afflicted with sciatica

  2. of or relating to the ischium (or the part of the hipbone containing it); "sciatic nerve"

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Usage examples of "sciatic".

The great sciatic nerve was found hanging 15 inches from the stump, having given way from its division in the popliteal space.

Do you want me to describe more branches of the sciatic and crural nerves?

A slipped vertebral disc is not an uncommon cause of pain in the sciatic nerve.

The next few months were supposed to be filled with glowing skin and a renewed sense of peace, and yeah, okay, maybe an occasional backache or twinge of a sciatic nerve.

Sometimes she could silence these by digging sharply down towards the sciatic nerve.

He fumbled for the pressure point and, with shaking fingers, applied acupressure to the sciatic nerve until the pain backed off, a temporary measure at best, which could buy him a few more minutes of mobility.

When I was X-rayed in this agonizing position it was found that I had a ruptured disc pressing on the sciatic nerve.

Because it's if, it's not when it's if I'll walk again that's what they're saying, this sciatic nerve if it's as badly damaged as these doctors think I might not, that maybe I'll never walk again.

Sometimes his sciatic nerve made him see stars, even if his play didn't.