Letter D

Discordance

1. The presence of any given condition such as HIV in only one member of a couple.

2. In genetics, the presence of a phenotype such as asthma in only one members of a twin pair.

3. In clinical care, lack of agreement between physician and patient. In all sense, disconcordance is as opposed to concordance.

From dis- + the Latin concordare, to agree = not to agree

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