Halakhah for Chullin 191:9
פלניא דהאי סימניה והאי סימניה קטל נפשא לא קטלינן ליה
<big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>WHEN A PERSON REMOVES THE SCIATIC NERVE HE MUST REMOVE ALL OF IT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the view of R. Meir, supra 92b, that one must follow up the tracks of the nerve in all its ramifications.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And [it] is practiced in every places and at all times by males and by females. And one who transgresses it and eats a [whole sciatic nerve], even if it is less than an olive's-worth - or eats a kazayit (the size of a large olive) from a large sciatic nerve - is lashed (see Chullin 96a).
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