Word familynounsciaticaadverbsciaticallyadjectivesciatic
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sci·at·ic /saɪˈætɪk/adjectiveadj technical
HBHrelating to the hips 坐骨的
Examples from the Corpus
sciatic• But sometimes the sciatic nerve can become irritated by a lack of blood supply.• 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 sciatic nerve• Female speaker It's an agonising burning, which goes down my buttocks and sciatic nerve.• 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.
Originsciatic
(1500-1600)Frenchsciatique, from Latinischiadicus“of pain in the hip”, from Greek, from ischion“hip”