Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
ischiatic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.), rare Ischial.
- adjective (Med.) a rheumatic or neuralgic affection of some part about the hip joint; -- called also
sciatica .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
ischiatic
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Examples
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He that cooks in milk the ischiadic sinew on an annual festival is to be scourged five times forty stripes save one: -- For cooking the sinew, for eating the sinew, for cooking flesh in milk, for eating flesh cooked in milk, and for lighting the fire.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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Aylesbury and some other breeds the ischiadic foramen is less elongated.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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The outline of the ischiadic foramen differs considerably, being nearly circular in Bantams, instead of egg-shaped as in the Bankiva, and more regularly oval in some skeletons, as in the Spanish.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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