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Sciatica

Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve. The name is also popularly applied to various painful affections of the hip and the parts adjoining it. See Ischiadic passion, under Ischiadic.

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Neuralgia 76% connected

A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to it…

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Neuralgy 76% connected

Neuralgia.

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Sciatic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.

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Sciatic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the hip; in the region of, or affecting, the hip; ischial; ischiatic; as, the sciatic nerve, sciatic pains.

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Ache verb · 78% connection

To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.

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All-or-none law noun · 78% connection

(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus

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Arms noun · 78% connection

The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.

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Arthrodynia noun · 78% connection

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

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Back noun · 78% connection

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back…

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Bum noun · 78% connection

The buttock.

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

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Cerebrin noun · 78% connection

A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…

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Circumflex adjective · 78% connection

Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other…

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Colic noun · 78% connection

A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

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Epilepsia minor noun · 78% connection

epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities); "she has been suff…

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Epineurium noun · 78% connection

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath,…

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