Symptoms of sciatica. When the sciatic nerve is compressed or irritated, it can cause: pain. numbness. a tingling sensation that radiates from your lower back and travels down one of your legs to your foot and toes. weakness in the calf muscles or the muscles that move the foot and ankle.
SECT is a root, and it means to cut TION is a suffix, and it means act of doing something AL is a suffix, and it means act of
This ROOT-WORD is GREG which comes from the Latin grex & gregis meaning HERD, FLOCK & MOB. From that rather sour meaning we have developed the better words, GROUP, TROOF & CROWD. The burning word in the list is No. 15, seGREGation, and it is good to be able to know just why it means what it means. No. 19 is the opposite of No. 18.