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
• About the width of a thumb, your sciatic nerve starts in the lower part of the spinal canal and then splits to run down through your pelvic area, each buttock and thigh, and along each leg to your feet and toes.
  — Laura Riley, Parents, 2 Sep. 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
• Staying active and using lumbar support can keep your sciatic nerve healthy in the long run.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 4 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Your sciatic nerve provides sensations in your legs and controls muscles in your calf.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 7 July 2024
• 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
• Fascinatingly, a neuron’s cell body can measure a tenth of a millimeter across, while its axons can stretch more than 3 feet in length, as in the leg’s sciatic nerve.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025