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Webster 1913 Edition
Sciatica
Sci-at′i-ca
,Noun.
[NL.]
(Med.)
Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See
Ischiadic passion
, under Ischiadic
.