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
The Latin root sect means âcut.â This Latin root is the word origin of a good number of English vocabulary words, including insect, dissect, and intersect. The root sect is easily recalled via the word section, for a section is a âcutâ-off piece of a larger whole.