sciatican.

Brit.

/sʌɪˈatᵻkə/, U.S.

/saɪˈædəkə/

Forms: Middle English cyetica, Middle English seyetyka, Middle English syetyka, Middle English sytyca, Middle English–1500s siatica, Middle English–1600s ciatica, Middle English–1600s cyatica, Middle English– sciatica, 1500s ciatyca, 1500s cyatyca, 1500s schiatica, 1500s seattica, 1600s sciathica, 1600s sciatika, 1600s sciattica, 1600s scyatica.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sciatica.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin sciatica disease characterized by pain in the great sciatic nerve and its branches (from 12th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources, as syatica ), use as noun (short for sciatica passio sciatic illness) of feminine of sciaticus sciatic adj.¹ Compare Middle French sciatique (as feminine noun) sciatica, (as masculine noun) person affected by sciatica (both a1365). Compare also Spanish ciática (13th cent.), Portuguese ciática (16th cent.), Italian sciatica (14th cent.).

a. Originally: pain in the hip; disease causing such pain. In later use: spec. the condition of having pain along the course of the sciatic nerve, radiating from the hip down the back of the leg, and most commonly resulting from protrusion of a lumbar vertebral disc. In quot. c1475 applied to pain in the arm, perhaps with humorous intention, or as an extended use with reference to the similarity of the shoulder joint to the hip joint.In quot. 1596 figurative.In the early 17th cent. sometimes used euphemistically as a name for syphilis, of which pain in the joints or sciatic nerve may be a symptom; cf. quot. 1632. Cf. gout n.¹ 1d.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in hip-joint

gutta sciatica1398

boneshavea1400

sciaticaa1400

sciatic?a1425

ischiatica1581

cold gout1584

hip-gout1598

hip pain1655

ischialgia1847

coxalgy1854

coxalgia1859

coccyodynia1872

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 302 (MED) Blood-letynge in þis veine is good..as it is aforseid in þe cure of sciatica.

?1441 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 217 Elysabet Peverel hath leye seke xv or xvj wekys of þe seyetyka.

c1475 Mankind (1969) 498 Remember my brokyn hede in þe worschyppe of þe fyve vowellys. Ȝe, goode ser, and þe sytyca in my arme.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiii Allasse I haue the cyatyca full euyll in my hyppe.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. v. f. 169/2 Nowe we wyll come to the cure of the goute (called sciatica) of the huckelbones.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. B3 They are the verie botts & the glanders to the gentle Readers,..the Sarpego and the Sciatica of the 7. Liberall Sciences.

1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares sig. D4^v Shee had a kinde of secret titillation to grace my poore house sometimes; but that shee fear'd a spice of the Sciatica, which as you know euer runs in the bloud.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. i. 23 Thou cold Sciatica, Cripple our Senators.

1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East sig. I2^v The pox, Sir, Though falsely nam'd the Sciatica, or goute.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §86. 120 Surly griefs, as Sciatica and Gout in the feet.

1716 Poor Robin B 4 Patience is as good a Medicine to cure a waspish Woman of Sullenness, as an Ants Egg in Syrup for him that is troubled with the Sciatica.

1778 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 24 July The Attenuating Tincture for the Rheumatism and Sciatica, is sold by the Printer.

1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Gengulphus in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 245 Rheumatics, sciatica, tic-doloureux!

1860 R. W. Emerson Behaviour in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 172 If you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy,..I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace.

1940 M. Dickens Mariana iv. 103 Gran delivered a few creaking observations on the state of her sciatica, and the itching in her scalp.

2010 Independent 6 July 49/1 Not only has the horrid sciatica vanished, but I'm pain-free for the first time in years.

b. As a count noun: an attack, instance, or case of this.

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?1444 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 13 He hath had a cyetica þat hath letted hym a gret while to ride.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 24 (heading) A verye sure and perfect remedie agaynst a Sciatica, often tymes proued and experimented.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. A5 Now the rotten diseases of the south... Sciaticaes lime-kills ith' palme,..take and take againe such preposterous discoueries.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 83 He curst an old Sciatica that Stop'd him.

1722 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 384 For a Sciatica. A Catskin tann'd with the Fur on, and layd upon the Part affected.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. iv. 14 He was all that time afflicted with a Sciatica.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth Introd., in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 19 Well, enough that I awake without a sciatica.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 29 A petrified forest, which Mr. Evans now shows at the modest figure of half a dollar a head, or two thirds of his capital when he first came there with an axe and a sciatica.

1951 I. Berlin Let. Aug. in Enlightening: Lett. 1946–1960 (2009) 242 These headaches, piles, sudden wearinesses, ulcers, sciaticas, wd do for someone who had achieved something & was wearily paying a price.

2004 A. G. Filler Do You Really need Back Surg.? (2007) vii. 98 Tension and spasm or increased muscle tone in the piriformis can cause a sciatica that affects the buttock.

†2. Anatomy. Originally: = sciatic vein n. (a) at sciatic n. and adj.¹ Compounds. In later use: = sciatic artery n. at sciatic n. and adj.¹ Compounds. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein

middle veina1398

portaa1398

saphena1398

funisa1400

sciaticaa1400

guidesc1400

haemorrhoidc1400

salvatellac1400

liver veina1425

median?a1425

mesaraic?a1425

sciatic?a1425

venal artery?a1425

sciat1503

organal vein1523

axillar?1541

weeping vein1543

port-vein1586

lip-vein1598

nose vein1598

sciatic vein1598

cephalic vein1599

hollow vein1605

jugular1615

scapulary1615

subclavian vein1615

umbilical vessel1615

basilica1625

porter-vein1625

neck vein1639

garter-vein1656

matricious vein1656

sacred vein1656

subclavicular1656

subclavial1664

vertebral1718

portal vein1765

cava1809

satellite vein1809

brachial1859

innominate vein1866

precaval1866

postcava1882

precava1882

postcaval1891

Vesalian vein1891

sciatic1892

subcardinal1902

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 177 Þat oon veyne þerof is clepid sciatica, & þat oþere is clepid renalis, &..oon veyne serueþ for þe scie, & þat oþer for þe reynes.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 46 (MED) The veynes þat ben lete blood..in þe feet ben iiij..Sephalica, Sciatica, venalis, and oon þat is vndir þe greete too.

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. f.iv The hamme veyne is better than sophena or sciatica, for it is nerer the matrice.

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. viii. i. sig. Dd Note that all veines in parts neruous, must bee opened longwise, except sciatica which must be opened a little athwart.

1601 S. Harward Phlebotomy vii. 101 Then he sayth the only saphena shall suffice, that is, the inward vayne of the foote, for as the outward is called sciatica, so the inward saphena.

1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations xxiv. 104 Branches on the Foot, which may be opened when the great Trunks do not appear.

1733 G. Douglas tr. J. B. Winslow Anat. Expos. Struct. Human Body II. 27 The first..passes through the great Sinus of the Os Ilium in company with the Glutæa and Sciatica.

1801 Syst. Anat. & Physiol. (new ed.) III. v. 143 A ramus..which communicates with the first principal ramus of the pudica major and sciatica.

Compounds

sciatica cress n. now rare any of several plants of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae) supposed to be effective in the treatment of sciatica; esp. any of several pepperworts (genus Lepidium); also in plural with singular agreement. [Apparently an English formation: Mattioli ( Di Pedacio Dioscoride..Libri cinque della historia et materia medicinale (1557) i. 163 and ii. 310 respectively) notes that plants named ‘Iberide’ and ‘Lepidio’ (probably both plants of the genus Lepidium) are used as remedies for sciatica but he does not use a term corresponding to sciatica cress] .

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress

cressa700

pepperworta1500

dittany1548

sciatica cress1562

way-cresses1562

churl's cress1578

churl's mustard1578

dittander1578

cockweed1585

colt1585

green mustard1597

peasant's mustard1597

sciatica grass1597

scar-wort1657

yellow-seed1818

money tree1934

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 20 Of Sciatica cresse or wilde cresse. Iberis.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 20^v It may be called in Englishe..sciatica cresses, because the herbe is good for the sciatica.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 197 Sciatica Cresses hath many slender braunches..with small, long, and narrowe leaues, like those of garden Cresses.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 853 Sciatica Cresses are of two sorts, of both which Matthiolus entreateth.

1748 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar (ed. 8) 209 Medicinal Plants which may now be gathered for Use. Tormentil, Winter Savory, Ros Solis or Sun-dew.., Mullein, Sciatica Cress.

1820 R. Hooper Lexicon-medicum (ed. 4) 489/2 Lepidium Iberis... Sciatica cresses.

1997 J. A. Duke Green Pharmacy 386 Herbalists recommend applying fresh sciatica cress externally as a pain reliever.

† sciatica grass n. Obsolete rare = sciatica cress n.

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