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UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Public Health Service mean?
• UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE (noun)
The noun UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE has 1 sense:
1. an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health
Familiarity information: UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
PHS; United States Public Health Service
Hypernyms ("United States Public Health Service" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("United States Public Health Service" is a part of...):
Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)
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