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While she has since embraced her womanhood, she says she still lives with the irreversible effects—including chronic pain, a low voice, excessive hair growth and the inability to breastfeed her child.

Whether a person with a major psychiatric disorder can muster the necessary volition to support such an irreversible decision, and whether doctors can reliably determine that a patient’s condition is irremediable, are major question marks.

"Economic globalisation and multipolarity are irreversible," Li said at a Asian regional summit in October.

If the system works, China’s control may prove irreversible even if democracy returns to Myanmar.

Traditional clocks, from pendulums to atomic oscillators, depend on irreversible processes to track time.