Definitions for sciatica

sciatica sci·at·i·ca

Spelling: [sahy-at-i-kuh]
IPA: /saɪˈæt ɪ kə/

Sciatica is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in sciatica (aacciist).

Definitions for sciatica

noun

  1. pain and tenderness at some points of the sciatic nerve, usually caused by a prolapsed intervertebral disk; sciatic neuralgia.
  2. any painful disorder extending from the hip down the back of the thigh and surrounding area.

Origin of sciatica

1400-50; Medieval Latin, noun use of feminine of sciaticus sciatic

Examples for sciatica

I read up in my medical book, Jim, later, when the sciatica took me.

And if I get shelved with an attack of sciatica, there's the end of it!

sciatica is a disease from which youth is comparatively exempt.

He was leaning upon a cane, getting ease of the sciatica which plagued him.

Is not this much better, now, than lying wet, and getting the sciatica?

It was known that he complained of sciatica in the leg and thigh.

Good in all cases of chronic rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, and the like.

Two days of it would knock out the sciatica, that old doctor had said.

I have felt this instant a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle.

There seemed no earthly reason for the return of the sciatica.

Word Value for sciatica
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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