Sentences with phrase «in irreversible»

A medication error can result in irreversible damage, pain, and even death in some circumstances.

With new reports that we are already in irreversible climate change, can we finally get a sense of mission, a unified focus, in beginning a national and international response to this that is commensurate with the crisis?

This could also entail sudden shifts of ecosystems to less desired states (Scheffer et al., 2001; Folke et al., 2004; e.g., Chapin et al., 2004) through, for example, the exeedance of critical temperature thresholds, possibly resulting in the irreversible loss of ecosystem services, which were dependent on the previous state (Reid et al., 2005).

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a global temperature rise of great than 2C would result in irreversible damage to society, including «increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought» as well as other compounding climate impacts.

Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on May 12, 2014.

A new study led by NASA researchers shows that half - a-dozen key glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are in irreversible decline.

I do recognize that a gas can be reversibly expanded and compressed, but it seems to me that merely releasing the gas from a vessel (by, e.g., magically making the vessel disappear) would result in an irreversible expansion.

Even at 2.0 °C, and certainly above it, it is thought that the Earth would cross certain tipping points, beyond which the operation of the Earth System is changed in an irreversible way, at least over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years.

This year's airborne campaign, which began its first flight Thursday morning, will revisit a section of the Antarctic ice sheet that recently was found to be in irreversible decline.

Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature change and as a result of climate change, glaciers around the world are in irreversible retreat.

An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea - level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows

A 2014 study study led by NASA researchers shows that half - a-dozen key glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are in irreversible decline.

Through the process of creating these pieces, she meticulously examines our inability to learn from our mistakes, resulting in irreversible consequences affecting all living beings, as well as the Earth we inhabit.

This and Uncharted 2??? I'm going to suite Sony for putting me in irreversible debt.

This painful condition may result in irreversible blindness.

The decay results in irreversible periodontal disease and even tooth loss.

It is important that these conditions be confirmed and controlled before they result in irreversible damage.

According to the Cornell Feline Health Center, a Lyme infection that remains untreated for an extended period — several weeks or so — can result in irreversible tissue damage.

Even worse, in human hosts, roundworms sometimes get lost and leave the intestine (this is known as «visceral larval migrans»), in which case the worms can wind up in the eye or brain, resulting in irreversible damage.

An infection that remains untreated for an extended period — several weeks or so — can result in irreversible tissue damage.

This decay results in irreversible periodontal disease and even tooth loss.

A delay of treatment of more than 18 hours after ingestion generally results in irreversible renal failure.

This decay can result in irreversible periodontal disease, tooth loss, and possibly expensive oral surgery.

Inflammation with ischemia can result in irreversible interstitial fibrosis.

No dog should be euthanized unless in irreversible pain or illness.

Small quantities ingested can rapidly result in irreversible kidney failure if no intervention takes place.

Nobody is telling you to do it all at once in an irreversible manner.

By the time the bank identifies the fake check and takes the money back, the wire transfer has already cleared in an irreversible process, costing the victim the difference.

Electronic devices powered by LED could damage the retina in an irreversible manner.

Matt's now facing twin challenges: the potentially lucrative sale of a prime parcel of land and the impending death of his wife, Elizabeth (Hastie), who lies in an irreversible coma after a boating accident.

Hardly «screwing up» in any irreversible sense one's insulin sensitivity for otherwise healthy people.

Research is now starting to show that stress can damage our bodies in irreversible ways.

Children with measles rapidly use up vitamin A, often resulting in irreversible blindness.

Exposure to copper damages the bacterial respiration and DNA, resulting in irreversible cell breakdown and death.»

The main cause of reduced cardiac functionality lies in the irreversible loss of cardiac muscle cells due to disease, especially ischaemic diseases such as cardiac infarction.

Once a retrovirus has infected an organism, it commandeers that organism's genetic machinery, turning a once - healthy cell into a retroviral powerhouse that spreads the infection to more cells in an irreversible cascade.

This type of injury is called traumatic optic neuropathy, or TON, and results in irreversible vision loss.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

Then it was fundamentally about whether an elected government could actually govern what looked like a country in an irreversible downward spiral.

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

That Rooney of late has been alternating superbly taken goals with episodes of sluggishness, confirming Ferguson's alleged view that he is overweight and thus not fully match fit, suggests that he may be in irreversible decline.

Barcelona on the other hand should use the money wisely and improve their squad, there is a serious risk that they are in an irreversible decline.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

It is not a case of judging that «a life is not worth living»; the question is whether there is a moral responsibility to continue at all cost the artificial feeding of patients who, in the opinion of physicians, are in an irreversible coma.

At last accepting the unwelcome challenge, he transmuted the office itself in irreversible ways.

The question these scientists address is whether a bubble could also expand exponentially to allow a universe to form in an irreversible way.

Damage to the reticular formation in human beings makes all consciousness impossible, and permanent injury results in an irreversible coma.

God is true and has touched me in an irreversible way that has changed my life for the better, forever.

The city council said it needs time to consider zoning laws and lighting regulations «before commercial cryptocurrency mining operations results in irreversible change to the character and direction of the city.»