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.
I refer, first, to the need for far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy. The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.