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sciatica|saɪˈætɪkə|
Forms: 5 cyetica, sytyca, seyetyka, ciatica, 5–6 siatica, 6 seattica, schiatica, 6–7 cyatica, 7 sciathica, scyatica, sciattica, 6– sciatica.
[a. med.L. sciatica (passio), fem. of sciaticus sciatic a. Cf. F. sciatique.]
A disease characterized by pain in the great sciatic nerve and its branches.
In the first quot. misapplied, perh. with jocular intention.
a1450Mankind (Brandl) 484 Remembre my brokyne hede..Ȝe, goode ser, & þe sytyca in my erme. 1477Paston Lett. III. 215 Elisabet Peverel hath leye sek xv or xvj wekys of the seyetyka. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 1956 Allasse, I haue the cyatyca full euyll in my hyppe! 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. v. v. 169 Nowe we wyll come to the cure of the goute (called sciatica) of the huckel bones. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. ii. 59 How now, which of your hips has the most profound Ciatica? 1607― Timon iv. i. 23 Thou cold Sciatica, Cripple our Senators. 1687Jenner in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (O.H.S.) 211 The Bishop ill of his sciatica. 1839Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. St. Gengulphus, Rheumatics,—sciatica,—tic-doloureux! 1860Emerson Cond. Life v. Behaviour Wks. (Bohn) II. 392 If you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy,..I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 801 Sciatic neuralgia, or sciatica. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. iv. 701 A victim to sciatica, or neuralgic pain in the hip.
fig.1596Nashe Saffron Walden Ep. Ded. B 3, They are the verie botts & the glanders to the gentle Readers,..the Sarpego and the Sciatica of the 7. Liberall Sciences.
b. An attack of this disease.
1444Paston Lett. I. 50 He hath hadde a cyetica that hath letted hym a gret while to ride. 1606[see lime-kiln b]. 1641Brome Jovial Crew i. (1652) C 4, He..was taken lame with lying in the Fields by a Sciatica. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 83 He curst an old Sciatica that Stop'd him. 1697Sir J. Floyer Enq. Baths Pref. b 7 Erysipela's, Sciatica's, Fluxes. 1722Hearne's Collect. (O.H.S.) VII. 384 For a Sciatica. A Catskin tann'd with the Fur on, and layd upon the Part affected. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy i. iv, He was all that time afflicted with a Sciatica. 1831Scott F.M. Perth Introd., Well, enough that I awake without a sciatica.
†c. sciatica cress, grass (see quot. 1886).
1562Turner Herbal ii. 20 Of Sciatica cresse or wilde cresse. Iberis. Ibid. 20 b, It may be called in Englishe..sciatica cresses, because the herbe is good for the sciatica. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xiv. 197 Sciatica Cresses hath many slender braunches..with small, long, and narrowe leaues, like those of garden Cresses. The flowers be very small, and yellow of colour. Ibid. Table Eng. Names, Sciatica grasse, that is wilde Cresses. 1886Britten & Holland Plant-n, Cress, Sciatica. A name invented by Turner (Herb.) for a cruciferous plant (which Prior identifies with Iberis amara, L., but which seems to us a species of Lepidium). |