How to Use sciatic nerve in a Sentence

sciatic nerve

noun

• The sciatic nerve is the largest and thickest nerve of the human body.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• The pain came on slow and built over the next two weeks until one day the disc pinched her sciatic nerve.
  — WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
• The increase in speed, though, caused the sciatic nerve running down her right hip to fire.
  — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
• The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body (about the size of your finger, only a little flatter).
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2023
• To find out if this was the case, the scientists studied how many nerve fibers made up the giraffe sciatic nerve.
  — Perrin Ireland, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2013
• The gentle warmth will help to relieve tightness and take pressure off the sciatic nerve.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2022
• Researchers anchored one end of their fiber to the mice’s skulls, threaded it underneath the skin, and wrapped a cuff at the other end around the sciatic nerve in the leg.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• Each sciatic nerve runs bilaterally from the base of your spine through the deep muscles of your buttocks and down the back of a leg.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• The pillow fights sciatic nerve pain and helps with pregnancy, hip, back and spine alignment.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2020
• Sciatica can cause back and leg pain and is due to compression on nerve roots or on the sciatic nerve which runs from the lower spine down the thigh.
  — Fox News, 1 Jan. 2021
• Your sciatic nerve branches from your lower back into your hip and leg on each side of your body, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 28 Mar. 2018
• Since the sciatic nerve flows in the same direction as these muscle groups, stretches that target the hamstrings and calves will hit the sciatic nerve as well.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 25 Feb. 2022
• For instance, most people who suffer from sciatic nerve pain will complain about a sharp and intense pain that starts from the lower back and goes down to their feet.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Sciatica is a painful condition that radiates from the sciatic nerve, which is the largest nerve in the human body.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 23 Jan. 2023
• The first bullet damaged his small intestine and bladder, and the second one entered his buttocks and lodged near a sciatic nerve, his lawyers say.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2020
• Pinched nerves can also cause sciatica, pain that radiates the length of the sciatic nerve, which runs from your lower back down each leg.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• Delos Santos had planned to be at the parade with his church but stayed home because of sciatic nerve pain that makes walking difficult.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
• The sciatic nerve is tensioned by the same movements that stretch the hamstrings, especially when combined with movements that stretch the calf muscles.
  — Jordan Duncan, Outside Online, 12 May 2021
• That can cause inflammation, pain, or even pinching of that sciatic nerve.
  — Kelly O'Mara, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2014
• The researchers tested their device on the sciatic nerve of rats, which carries sensory signals from nerves that terminate in the paws.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
• Instead of a seat designed to waterboard your sciatic nerve, a reclining sleep pod and your own armrests.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 June 2019
• Also, Papa is a font of information about the sciatic nerve!
  — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body, and the irritation of that nerve that causes the pain better known as sciatica is usually a result of pressure from the bony spinal column.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• The condition is caused by pain radiating from the sciatic nerve, causing extreme discomfort and pain in the legs and lower back.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• The condition is caused by pain radiating from the sciatic nerve, causing extreme discomfort and pain in the legs and lower back.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
• The lawsuit alleges that the doctor injected too much fat into her gluteal muscles, which put pressure on her sciatic nerve.
  — Joy Johnston, ajc, 18 Nov. 2017
• Other symptoms include numbness or tingling in any area where the sciatic nerve is located as well as an overall sense of weakness in both legs.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• The researchers implanted the device around rats’ sciatic nerve to test its analgesic potential.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
• Tight hips can also cause sciatica due to tense muscles in the middle of the buttocks -- your piriformis muscles -- putting pressure on the sciatic nerve.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• In these mice, the PNNs remained intact after the sciatic nerve surgery and, remarkably, the mice did not become hypersensitive to painful stimuli.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 July 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024