What's the difference between irrecoverable and irremediable?
Irrecoverable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrauterine influences which retard fetal weight gain may irrecoverably constrain the growth of the airways.
(2) Stunting of that degree at that age is irrecoverable and confers a lifetime of physical and mental challenges.
(3) For each item of evidence the evidential weight, the irrecoverability, and the expected benefit accruing to the patient of its availability was calculated.
(4) All these factors explain quite well why finger infections were, on admission, irrecoverable through medical means.
(5) Prolonged compression of the upper brainstem seems to cause irreversible loss of the P15 which should be regarded as being due to irrecoverable brainstem dysfunction.
(6) Vision lost to glaucoma is as irrecoverable as it is asymptomatic.
(7) Creep and creep recovery measurements on unligated clots showed creep rates and irrecoverable deformation that were similar in magnitude to those of alpha-fibrin clots formed with batroxobin and much larger than those of alpha beta-fibrin clots formed with thrombin, under the same conditions.
(8) Russia's role in the origins of the crisis was differently motivated – attempting to prevent the irrecoverable loss of its most important neighbour to western institutions, it appears to have persuaded the Yanukovych government to pull back from closer ties to the EU.
(9) Irrecoverable postoperative deficit is unlikely if the N 20 takes longer than 4 minutes to disappear, to reappears within 20 minutes after recirculation.
(10) The decrease in elastic modulus was accompanied by enormously enhanced viscoelastic creep under shear stress and irrecoverable deformation after removal of stress.
(11) Despite current micro-neurosurgical techniques the facial nerve may be irrecoverably damaged in up to 40% of operations for large acoustic neuromas.
(12) The prevalence of invalidity through tuberculosis recorded but a slight decrease since those subjects who had sequellae involving irrecoverable cardiorespiratory insufficiency were maintained in this category.
(13) Disappearance of the N20 potential following occlusion is regarded as a danger signal, but postoperative, irrecoverable neurological deficit seems to be unlikely if its disappearance takes more than 3-4 minutes.
(14) alpha 1dr provides a measure of irrecoverable damage, the magnitude of which agreed well with the initial slope of the acute survival curve for most cell lines.
(15) The figures compiled by the City of London include taxes from corporation tax – a tax on profits – employment taxes, the £1.6bn paid in the chancellor's levy on bank balance sheets and irrecoverable valued added tax.
(16) Preliminary experience suggests that ratios below 0.8 are associated with irrecoverable failure of energy metabolism and cellular necrosis.
Irremediable
Definition:
(a.) Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some patients are too sick or medically unstable to treat; others' disabilities are irremediable.
(2) It is concluded that an irremediable damage of bone marrow stroma by CMV is responsible for a reduced rate of regeneration of the marrow-repopulating, pluripotent stem cell.
(3) The docs I like are irremediably hybrid – a mixture of authorial personality, cod epistemology, appropriated or created history and whatever seems current and interesting.
(4) "The extinction of animals and plant species and the depletion of non-renewable resources are irremediable crimes," he said recently.
(5) This is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilisations, unending, implacable, irremediable.
(6) Emphasis is placed on early operative intervention in order to preserve the globe, as well as to prevent irremedial stimulus deprivation amblyopia.
(7) On Thursday, he said: "A new, invisible and at times virtual, tyranny is established, one which unilaterally and irremediably imposes its own laws and rules."
(8) This explains why small island states think it is so important to set up an international mechanism for loss and damage, to compensate for the irremediable consequences of global warming.
(9) In the nursing home, urinary incontinence is a common problem that all too often is treated as an irremediable "problem of aging" by physicians, nurses, and patients.
(10) Arguing that the film's promotion of partisan political views was "irremediable" and that it contained scientific inaccuracies and "sentimental mush", Mr Dimmock attempted to get the film totally banned from schools in England.
(11) Second, there is consistent evidence that elderly people often consider urinary incontinence to be an inevitable and irremediable part of the normal aging process.
(12) This was held to be an important cause of failure to achieve good results in valgus knees, and appeared to be an irremedial fault of tibial osteotomy.
(13) A 23-year-old primigravid patient who received epidural analgesia for pain of labour presented with persistent, apparently irremediable, unilateral analgesia.
(14) Natural waters containing organic pollutants have a strong tendency to foul anionic exchange resins irremediably.
(15) These considerations support the inclusion of cardiac transplantation as a realistic therapeutic alternative in the management of patients with advanced heart disease irremediable by standard forms of treatment.
(16) Here's a summary of where things stand: • The Mitt Romney campaign is in damage control mode after footage surfaced yesterday afternoon of the candidate accusing nearly half the country of irremediable parasitism.
(17) Chronic heart failure is an irremediable terminal syndrome.
(18) Subsequent MANOVA that contrasted remediably and irremediably obese persons, regardless of their group membership, yielded highly significant (p less than .001) overall results and significant differences (ps ranged from .10 to .001) on 10 of the 24 ROSS factors.
(19) Contrary to the patient in danger of death (Moriturus) where the doctor has the duty to save the live, in the case of the dying (Moribundus), where the disease is irreversible and the prognosis irremediable, passive euthanasy is permitted.
(20) Canada’s supreme court ruling means a doctor can’t be prosecuted for assisting with death for those with “grievous and irremediable” illnesses.