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dyad

noun dy·ad

Medical Definition of DYAD

1
:  two individuals (as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship
2
:  a meiotic chromosome after separation of the two homologous members of a tetrad
dy·ad·ic \dī-ˈad-ik\ adjective
dy·ad·i·cal·ly \-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Variants of DYAD

dy·ad also di·ad \ˈdī-ˌad, -əd\

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