sciatic
adjective/saɪˈætɪk/
/saɪˈætɪk/
[only before noun] (anatomy)- of the hip or of the nerve which goes from the pelvis to the thigh (= the sciatic nerve)Oxford Collocations DictionarySciatic is used with these nouns:
- nerve
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as a noun denoting sciatica): from French sciatique, via late Latin from Greek iskhiadikos ‘relating to the hips, subject to sciatica’, from iskhion ‘hip joint’.
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