If the cause is removed at this stage, the changes are still fully reversible.

One problem is that the underlying causes of market uncertainties have not been removed.

They tend to repair themselves once the causes of their impoverishment are removed.

A new nail plate will form once the cause of the disease is removed.

One real and serious cause of unhappiness for Josephine was removed in part this summer.

And yet, in the case of the young man, once the cause for the psychological distress was removed, his mysterious illness disappeared.

It was "a reminder that the causes of the conflict have not been removed."

The cause of crime must be removed before justice could be given its full due.

That word refers to the perseverance of an effect even after its cause is removed.

In other instances, though, nature tends to spring back once the cause of disturbance is removed.