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.
To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at mangle. 2. To make imperfect or defective; impair: The presumption of innocence has already been maimed ... for foreign Muslims (Nicholas D. Kristof).