sciatic, sciatIck

& s. [Fr. sciatique, from Low Lat. sciatic us, a corrupt. of Lat. ischiadi. cus=subject to gout in the hip, from Gr. ischiadikos =subject to pains in the loins, from ischias (gen it. ischia dos) = pain in the loins, from ischion = the socket in which the thigh-bone turns: Sp ciatica.] A. As adjective : 1. Of or pertaining to the hip. "On the sciatic nerve of a rabbit." -Philosophical Trans actions, xci. 13. 2. Affecting the hip. B. As subst.: The sciatica (q.v.) "Rack'd with sci a ticks , martyr'd with the stone." Pope: Satires , iv. 54. sciatic-notch, s. Anat.: A great and a small notch in the innominate bone.