What's the difference between irrecoverable and irretrievable?

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.

Irretrievable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anaerobically, lactaldehyde is reduced by an NADH-COUPLED REDUCTASE TO L-1,2-propanediol, which is lost into the medium irretrievably, even when oxygen is subsequently introduced.
  • (2) To define more clearly a salvageable patient for possible utilization of a left ventricular assist device prior to multiple organ failure and irretrievability during postcardiotomy intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP), we made prospective and retrospective analyses to determine prognostic indices for survival.
  • (3) Many ministers believe his position is irretrievable, while others believe Brown may eventually recover if voters look to the future.
  • (4) In his strongly worded judgement, Wildblood listed the council’s multiple mistakes point by point and warned that the child’s chance of a permanent family had been irretrievably shattered.
  • (5) Complications in the furture are likely to be progressive sclerosis from irretrievable fragments and knots of the artificial materials and conceivably malignant degeneration of tissues of the scalp.
  • (6) Inhibitor activity was registered even if sera were not present in cell culture continuously but only 6 hours of preincubation; then their action was irretrievable.
  • (7) His lack of communication and isolating people and strictly controlling all information has made your party less effective.” Labor MP Nicole Manison said the government was “irretrievable.” “It has been very clear.. that there are some deep problems within the government and they are not going to be fixed, it’s gone too far,” she said.
  • (8) He said: "The [MoJ] proposals will undermine the position of the independent bar, irretrievably and forever.
  • (9) He was also dissatisfied with Moody’s role and it quickly became apparent during his talks with Parish that the damage was irretrievable.
  • (10) Clarity on this point would enable Britain to start making a crucial point to our counterparties: the four freedoms of the single market are neither immutable nor irretrievably interdependent.
  • (11) In the divorce filing released on Wednesday, Murdoch's lawyers said that the "relationship between husband and wife had broken down irretrievably".
  • (12) Bruce is understood to have left with a heavy heart but felt his position had become untenable and that his much-soured relationship with Ehab Allam, the vice-chairman, was irretrievable.
  • (13) With the game seemingly irretrievable, Rodgers sent on Daniel Sturridge at half-time.
  • (14) Cytoplasm and organelles become entrapped in the upward movement of granules towards the cell apex, become irretrievably isolated, and are sloughed into the crypt lumen.
  • (15) He said formal consultation with Indigenous leaders, which has not yet begun, ought to have begun months ago, and the relationship between the government and leadership structures in the Kimberley had now “broken down irretrievably”.
  • (16) Clegg will try to persuade the electorate the party has changed irretrievably, saying: "The past is gone and it isn't coming back.
  • (17) Surgical therapy has three roles in disseminated atheroembolism: prevention of further atheroembolism with its attendant peripheral or visceral organ damage; amputation or resection of irretrievably damaged tissue; and provision of chronic hemodialysis access.
  • (18) The UK would be irretrievably damaged and could face separation if the electorate votes to leave the European Union in the referendum planned by David Cameron after next year’s general election, a leading pro-Europe Tory has said.
  • (19) Thus, it appears that most CTL precursor cells may be lost or irretrievably inactivated in the spleens of late TBH mice.
  • (20) Carelessness will result in evidence being irretrievably lost.

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