(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.
Recoverable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their incidence cannot be estimated--only the possibility of recoverable renal function in an unknown number of involved patients.
(2) Additional evaluation of the recoverability of H ovis and A seminis from the preputial cavity of rams from birth to 1 year of age indicated that the isolation rate from rams and predominance of the organisms in the preputial cavity differed greatly over this age period.
(3) That the various leukotriene components of SRS-A have unique receptors on responding tissues and are recoverable from airway surfaces in several inflammatory lung diseases and that several resident and infiltrating cell types have significant potential for leukotriene biosynthesis lend further support to their postulated pathobiologic roles.
(4) This effect is both diminished and recoverable by the addition of plasma, and by GSH in concentrations found in plasma.
(5) Vacuuming of carpets showed only a slight reduction in the number of recoverable microorganisms.
(6) On day 3 postinoculation (PI), most chickens were shedding virus recoverable by oral swabs and detectable in harvests from TEC prepared on that day.
(7) Additionally, it was shown that the mutant strain expresses significant increases in the total number of recoverable peritoneal leukocytes in response to other phlogistic stimuli.
(8) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
(9) In uterine flushings, total recoverable protein (p less than 0.05), uteroferrin (p less than 0.01), leucine aminopeptidase (p less than 0.05), calcium (p less than 0.03), sodium (p less than 0.01), and potassium (p less than 0.05) increased between 12 and 24 h following EV treatment.
(10) The use of immobilized enzymes makes these reagents recoverable and re-usable, and in most cases increases their stability and catalytic activity.
(11) However, these compounds were not recoverable using the alumina column method, so no comparisons between the two methods were possible.
(12) Animals' teeth were swabbed for recovery of 6715-13WT and total recoverable flora.
(13) In contrast, in cells not stimulated with zymosan, ethanol increased the recoverable PAF.
(14) The only time a virulent L. pneumophila culture was recoverable from an avirulent culture was when the avirulent culture was derived from a saline suspension of a virulent culture which had been passaged only five times on SMH agar.
(15) The number of recoverable bacteria from the hand was greatly reduced by a single treatment with a surgical scrub preparation containing hexachlorophene.
(16) We conclude that aflatoxin is not regularly recoverable from cases of Reye's Syndrome at a high rate, and question the proposed etiologic relationship.
(17) Although virus was fully recoverable from sludge, its infectivity decreased in proportion to the time and temperature of incubation.
(18) Reduced hepatic icterus, serum oxalic acid transaminase, serum glutamic pyruvic acid transaminase, and recoverable virus titers from livers and sera of infected mice were also seen as a result of ribamidine treatment.
(19) Both of these costs should no longer be recoverable from an unsuccessful defendant, he said.
(20) For both subunits we identify the proteins which dissociate (split proteins) or are recoverable in a ribonucleoprotein particle (core proteins) under the action of 6 M urea in a buffer of moderate ionic strength.