Certain symptoms are unique depending on the underlying cause of the sciatica. For example, bending the body backward or walking more than a short distance often triggers symptoms when spinal stenosis is the cause. Bending the body forward may trigger symptoms if the cause is a lumbar herniated disc. Sciatica Symptoms for Each Nerve Root
Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  repugnant(Adjective) Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion. 2  repugnant(Adjective) Opposed or in conflict.
1: a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it. 2: a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and especially a usually pleasurable one because it is or has been associated with a noxious stimulus conditioning of food aversions by drug injection.