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subhealth

subhealth noun: a condition between health and disease, exhibiting some apparently unhealthy features without specific pathology.

Noun

subhealth (uncountable)

  1. A condition between health and disease, exhibiting some apparently unhealthy features without specific pathology.
    • Still, the etiology of subhealth and the mechanism of its development are still unclear.2015 August 6, Tian Wang et al., “Effects of TCMC on Transformation of Good Health Status to Suboptimal Health Status: A Nested Case-Control Study”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative...

Origin of subhealth

From sub- + health.

Questions about subhealth

What does subhealth mean?
Subhealth means a condition between health and disease, exhibiting some apparently unhealthy features without specific pathology.
What part of speech is subhealth?
Subhealth is a noun.

Words near subhealth in the dictionary

  1. subheadlines
  2. subheadquarters
  3. subheads
  4. subheadword
  5. subheadwords
  6. subhealth
  7. subheap
  8. subheaps
  9. subhed
  10. subhedging
  11. subhedral

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