What's the difference between concord and discord?

Concord


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
  • (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
  • (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
  • (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
  • (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
  • (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
  • (v. i.) To agree; to act together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (2) In gram positive organisms, the concordance was lower only for the differentiation between group D streptococci and enterococci.
  • (3) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
  • (4) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
  • (5) The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relation to self-reports.
  • (6) Results with the two EIA systems were concordant and detected 13 positive samples, each of which was confirmed by WB.
  • (7) The previous Ba’athist and Shia governments tried to deviate the Muslim generation from their path through their educational programmes that concord with their governments and political whims.
  • (8) Three donors (12%) were concordantly positive for HBV DNA and hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and had IgM antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc).
  • (9) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
  • (10) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
  • (11) These bounds require an investigator to specify a range of possible concordances for the times to occurrences of the competing risks.
  • (12) A comparative study between MAR test and IBT in 142 seminal samples is presented by the authors and their concordance with TAT and SIT is also evaluated.
  • (13) An interpretation is given: if the mutated gene(s) has its effect in early embryological stages, affected relatives may have any type of CHD, but if the alteration occurs later, concordance is expected to be found.
  • (14) These methods have been implemented as a collection of short microcomputer programmes, and applied to the study of the temporal relationship between beta-endorphin and cortisol in normal subjects sampled every 10 min for 24 h. This analysis demonstrated concordance between events in the two series, with synchronous occurrence of beta-endorphin and cortisol release events significantly more frequently than expected on the basis of random association (p less than 0.01).
  • (15) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
  • (16) The correlation was less concordant in patients with intracranial vascular malformations or lesions involving cranial bones.
  • (17) There was concordance amongst the three groups in some areas but there were also differences between patients, R.N.
  • (18) Therefore, even given the existence of concordant cases, without inquiring precisely into the quality or degree of anorexia nervosa, it is not possible to conclude that hereditary factors play a determining role in the etiology of anorexia nervosa.
  • (19) Up to now, to interpret antibiotic susceptibility tests, the common practice has been to use: first, breakpoints without any quantitative justification, secondly, concordance curves between the different measurement techniques; these are not well adapted to the heterogeneous character of bacterial populations.
  • (20) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).

Discord


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
  • (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
  • (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
  • (2) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
  • (3) Discordance was found in three cases studied earlier, the two cases with low expression mentioned above and one cytogenetically normal case, which were now restudied with the new probes.
  • (4) Of 12 women followed through two pregnancies, 10 had elevated serum TSH values in both pregnancies, 1 had normal serum TSH values in both, and 1 had discordant serum TSH values.
  • (5) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
  • (6) The data on monozygotic twins further suggested that for most variables examined, the increment of environmental discordance resulting from the twinning phenomena was greater than the developmental noise that caused asymmetry within individual cotwins.
  • (7) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
  • (8) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
  • (9) This synchronization of dissimilar perceptions brings together disjunctive and conjunctive categories dominated by such coordinate conjunctions as "and... and", in the living diachronic discordance.
  • (10) Discordant segregation between COL2A1 and the mutant locus was seen in pedigrees with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, autosomal recessive spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, hypochondroplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, diaphyseal aclasis, and trichorhinophalangeal syndrome.
  • (11) These results demonstrate that permselective artificial membranes can protect discordant islet xenografts from both graft rejection and autoimmune destruction for more than 1 month in an animal model that is similar in several respects to human type I diabetes.
  • (12) The authors present a report on two sibling with a nearly identical phenotype mimicking peroxisomal disorder but with totally discordant biochemical findings.
  • (13) The overall aim of the current study was to comprehensively evaluate the prevalence, impact, and health correlates of marital aggression in a clinical sample of maritally discordant couples seeking psychological treatment.
  • (14) These results serve in part to explain the discordant findings reported in other studies and emphasize the importance of carefully selecting the technical conditions most likely to give results that are prognostically relevant for individual patients.
  • (15) The other had left isomerism (quasi solitus) with an ambiguous atrioventricular connexion (quasi discordant).
  • (16) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
  • (17) Comparison of results obtained from one week to the next was evaluated in 57 test pairs; discordant data, i.e.
  • (18) In three patients, broncho-atrial discordance was diagnosed clinically by bronchial tomography and selective atrial angiography, and in the other one the diagnosis was made by anatomical study.
  • (19) Murdoch’s rise to the top of Fox prompted rumours of discord within the company, but he has said he does not pay attention to the criticism.
  • (20) Eighteen standard and three research scales from the California Psychological Inventory were used to identify differences in personality between twins discordant for smoking and in nonsmoking and ever-smoking twins treated as individuals.