What's the difference between concordance and disharmony?

Concordance


Definition:

  • (n.) Agreement; accordance.
  • (n.) Concord; agreement.
  • (n.) An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
  • (n.) A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

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).

Disharmony


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The retrospective analysis revealed the following signs of carcinoma: missing haustral folds, disharmony of interhaustral fold patterns; radiolucent filling defects; local contractions; residue-like masses and decrease of volume.
  • (2) Consideration should be given to the intensity of the occlusal disharmony, the level of anxiety, and the patient's adaptive response.
  • (3) Half (52.7%) suffered from significant mental disorders and marital disharmony.
  • (4) There is racial disharmony in our society,” Miller writes .
  • (5) Illustrations show the anatomical variant, the "length-disharmony" and its relationship to important deformities like scoliosis and funnel chest.
  • (6) In delusion the are: loss of tradition, incapability of dialogue, disharmony with the environment, loss of trust and independence.
  • (7) Regret is more likely if the sterilisation is performed (i) post-termination or in the puerperium, (ii) when there is marital disharmony and (iii) for medical rather than social reasons.
  • (8) Determining if head pain is related to occlusal disharmony can be a challenge.
  • (9) The goal of the profession is preventing occlusal deterioration or disharmony between the anterior and posterior occlusal determinants and restore compromised occlusions when necessary.
  • (10) Frequently facial disharmonies may be corrected with relatively simple operative procedures or with cosmetics.
  • (11) Inertia surrenders space to economic and political stagnation, which, in turn, makes space for international conflict and social disharmony.
  • (12) With recent advances of oral surgery, restoration of malocclusion and facial disharmony can be achieved by approaches other than the traditional procedure of condylectomy.
  • (13) But the condyle paths differed strikingly in those patients who had temporo-mandibular complaints or neuromuscular disharmonies.
  • (14) TMJ dysfunction had no relation to specific malocclusion but some kinds of occlusal disharmony were easy to occur in specific malocclusion and TMJ dysfunction was induced by those etiological factors.
  • (15) In this paper the literature on the intergenerational transmission of family disharmony is reviewed from an environmental perspective.
  • (16) The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between TMJ dysfunction and occlusal disharmony (eccentric occlusal contacts and functional shift of the mandible) in orthodontic patients.
  • (17) Fifty-seven families were in the disharmonious marriage group and 62 were in the harmonious marriage group.
  • (18) It is sure that this is the result of disharmony of overstrain (bending force or compression force) of groups of muscles on the one hand and skeletal carrying capacity, i. e. one skeletal segment on the other hand.
  • (19) Results showed that marital disharmony, in the form of mistrustfullness, lack of mutual friends and time together, emotional instability (in both partners), but not sexual relations, were predominant factors in incest perpetrators' profiles.
  • (20) Few differences could be found in the mental or physical health of the two groups of parents, but marital breakdown or severe marital disharmony was found in nine of the mongol families and in none of the controls.

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