Sentences with phrase «usually irreversible»

Boost Mobile and Kyocera recognize that mobile phone accidents happen, but unlike cracked screens or broken keypads that can be replaced, water damage is usually irreversible.

While hearing loss is usually irreversible, you can limit the damage by removing yourself from a work environment with hazardous noise levels.

Severe pancreatitis in cats can cause damage to the adjacent organs; a problem which is usually irreversible and is due to the spread of pancreatic juices to those organs.

Once teeth have disease around the gums and significant pockets of infection around gum line, the damage to the ligaments holding the tooth in the jaw is usually irreversible, which is why sometimes teeth need to be removed.

The damage is usually irreversible and can cause loose teeth, bone loss and infection.

Early onset deafness, especially in predisposed breeds, typically suggests congenital causes and is usually irreversible.

Unfortunately, once kidney failure reaches this point, it's usually irreversible.

Once it starts, this process is usually irreversible — much as embryonic stem cells have no alternative but to become part of a kidney or cartilage once the biological «switch» is thrown.

Not exact matches

And as noted above, the use of stone boundary markers rather than wooden or clay ones indicated that alienations of land to the public sector (usually to the palace) were irreversible, in contrast to communal land tenure.

«Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in the world, and in the early stages patients usually have no symptoms and are not aware they are developing permanent vision loss,» says Director of the UNSW Centre for Eye Health Professor Michael Kalloniatis.

THE MOTIVE If a gene mutation hinders brain development, the resulting mental retardation is usually considered irreversible.

Usually they ask for a wire transfer / cash / gift cards / prepaid cards or something else irreversible / untraceable.

Because surgery and iodine treatments are irreversible, a few weeks of treatment with methimazole is usually a prerequisite.

Spinal cord injuries usually result in permanent, irreversible damage.

Unless the treatment in question is irreversible or is an immunisation, the consent of one person with parental responsibility is usually sufficient.