The phrase "a chronic process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or situation that is long-lasting or persistent over time.
Example: "The patient's recovery from the illness was complicated by the fact that it was a chronic process requiring ongoing treatment."
Alternatives: "a long-term process" or "a persistent process".
The dry type is a chronic process marked by slight redness of the skin and dry scaling that may involve the sole and sides of the foot as well as the toenails, which become thick and brittle.
There is bony scalloping but no significant marrow oedema, suggesting a chronic process.
Although spondylolysis is usually a chronic process, the onset of symptoms can be acute [18].
The mechanisms underlying the progression of migraine from an episodic to a chronic process are poorly understood, and the development of new therapies for chronic migraine has been slow, in part due to the lack of clinically relevant animal models.
(Fig. 10a, b and c) is usually a mark of extensive disease and reflects a chronic process (present insidiously over months), which has been reported to have less favorable therapeutic outcomes as compared to the acute form [41, 42, 43, 44].
The greater cardiomyocyte cell length in ob/ob mice at both ages was not affected by short-term physiological leptin treatment, likely due to the fact that cardiac hypertrophy resulting from interrupted leptin signaling in ob/ob mice is a chronic process [23], [40].
However, it is unclear whether cervical shortening under these circumstances is simply an acute effect of uterine overdistension, or a more chronic process reflecting longstanding uterocervical pathology.
However, the potential role of T2 mapping in longitudinal study on IDD was not fully investigated, because IDD is a multifaceted chronic process and it is difficult to perform a longitudinal study on patients.
Mural stratification due to intramural oedema is more indicative of active disease compared to a homogeneously enhanced wall, while the presence of submucosal fat indicates a more chronic process.
Disc degeneration (DD) is a multifaceted chronic process that alters the structure and function of the intervertebral discs and can lead to painful conditions.
In contrast to rib fractures caused by trauma, those after SBRT are considered to involve a relatively chronic process and usually do not involve external force.
