sciatic

adjective
🔊/saɪˈætɪk/
🔊/saɪˈætɪk/
[only before noun] (anatomy解剖学)
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  1. of the hip or of the nerve which goes from the pelvis to the thigh (= the sciatic nerve)坐骨的;坐骨神经的
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySciatic is used with these nouns:
    • nerve
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    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’.