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| sci·at·i·ca [ sī áttikə ] |
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pain in hip and leg: pain and tenderness extending from the back of the hip down to the calf, usually caused by a protrusion of vertebral disk substance pressing on the roots of the sciatic nerve
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| [15th century. < medieval Latin, form of sciaticus (see sciatic)] |
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