| discordant | 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. "The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce." (Motley) 2. [See Discord. 2. Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. "For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart." (Longfellow) 3. <geology> Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault. Synonym: Disagreeing, incongruous, contradictory, repugnant, opposite, contrary, inconsistent, dissonant, harsh, jarring, irreconcilable. Discord"antly, Discord"antness. Origin: OE. Discordant, descordaunt, OF. Descordant, discordant, F. Discordant, p. Pr. Of discorder, OF. Also, descorder. See Discord. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| discordant alternans | Presence of right ventricular and pulmonary artery alternans with peripheral pulsus alternans, but with the strong beat of the right ventricle coinciding with the weak beat of the left and vice versa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant alternation | The alternation in cardiac activities of either the systemic or the pulmonary circulations, but not of both, or in both but oppositely directed in each. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant atrioventricular connections | Connections in which each atrium is connected with a morphologically inappropriate ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant thyroid nodule | <radiology> Hot on Tc-99m pertechnetate, cold on I-123 or I-131, indicates trapping, but no organification, same work-up as cold nodule (12 Dec 1998) |
| discotomy | Synonym: discectomy. Origin: disco-+ G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| discount rate | A rate used to convert future costs or benefits to their present value. (05 Dec 1998) |
| discounting | A method of converting future dollars into present values, accounting for interest costs or forgone investment income. Used to convert a future payment into a value that is equivalent to a payment now. (05 Dec 1998) |
| discourage | 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." (Col. Iii. 21) 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts. Synonym: To dishearten, dispirit, depress, deject, dissuade, disfavor. Origin: Pref. Dis- + courage: cf. OF. Descoragier, F. Decourager: pref. Des- (L. Dis-) + corage, F. Courage. See Courage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discourageable | Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discouragement | 1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Origin: Cf. OF. Descouragement, F. Decouragement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discover | 1. To uncover. "Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church." (Abp. Grindal) 2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown). "Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince." (Shak) "Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue." (Bacon) "We will discover ourselves unto them." (1 Sam. Xiv. 8) "Discover not a secret to another." (Prov. Xxv. 9) 3. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect. "Some to discover islands far away." (Shak) 4. To manifest without design; to show. "The youth discovered a taste for sculpture." (C. J. Smith) 5. To explore; to examine. Synonym: To disclose, bring out, exhibit, show, manifest, reveal, communicate, impart, tell, espy, find, out, detect. To Discover, Invent. We discover what existed before, but remained unknown, we invent by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus discovered America, Newton discovered the law of gravitation, Whitney invented the cotton gin, Galileo invented the telescope. Origin: OE. Discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. Descovrir, descouvrir, F. Decouvrir; des- (L. Dis-) + couvrir to cover. See Cover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discoverable | Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discovert | Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow. Origin: Cf. F. Decouvert uncovered, OF. Descovert. See Discover, Covert. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discoverture | 1. Discovery. 2. A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. Origin: Pref. Dis- + coverture: cf. OF. Descoverture. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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pathologically reduced electrical activity on a recording from a muscle during maximal voluntary contractions, so that the normal interference pattern (qv) is lacking and several discrete motor unit action potentials can be identified.
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A quantitative variable that can only assume certain values. There is usually a "gap" between the values.
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| disc | cause to go off |
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| disc | go off or discharge |
| disc | pour forth or release |
| disc | remove the charge from |
| disc | leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo |
| disc | free from obligations or duties |
| disc | complete or carry out |
| disc | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
| disc | having lost your job |
| disc | set free as from prison or duty |
| disc | any fungus of the genus Discina |
| disc | a discina with a flat or saucer-shaped fertile body that is brown on the upper surface |