In severe cases when the nerves are being affected by compressive neuropathy and the herniated disc itself is pressing on the nerve, you can develop a severe type of nerve root compression called cauda equina syndrome resulting in loss of bowel and/or bladder control.
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case. Irony may be divided into categories such as verbal, dramatic, and situational. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used for emphasis in the assertion of a truth. The ironic form of simile, used in sarcasm, and some forms of litotes can emphasize one's meaning by the deliberate use of language whi
ironic - characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker; it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely. ironical.