What's the difference between discordant and disharmonious?
Discordant
Definition:
(n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
(n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
(n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
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.
Disharmonious
Definition:
(a.) Unharmonious; discordant.
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.