Definition of "ischiatic" [is•chi•at•ic]

• Of or pertaining to the ischium (adjective)

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• "Look at the flat, narrow haunch bones — the long and narrow passage — the coarse, outwardly curved, ischiatic prominences on which the Gibbon habitually rests, and which are coated by the so-called “callosities,” dense patches of skin, wholly absent in the Gorilla, in the Chimpanzee, and in the"
• "D D, the ischiatic tuberosities, and the double folds of the nates."
• "The posterior perinaeal space may be described on the surface by two lines drawn from D D, the ischiatic tuberosities, to C, the point of the coccyx, whilst the transverse line between D and D bounds it above."