Usually means: Below effective dose for treatment.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. subtherapeutic: Merriam-Webster
  2. subtherapeutic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. subtherapeutic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. subtherapeutic: Wiktionary
  5. subtherapeutic: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. subtherapeutic: Dictionary.com
  7. subtherapeutic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. subtherapeutic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subtherapeutic)

▸ adjective:  (medicine) Administered at levels lower than would be used in actual treatment of a disease

Similar:
subtherapeutical, supratherapeutic, supertherapeutic, subclinical, supraclinical, subhypotensive, subinhibitory, suprapharmacological, subantihypertensive, countertherapeutic, more...

Opposite:
supratherapeutic, therapeutic, effective

Types:
underdosing, hypodosing, maldosing, more...

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Similar:
subtherapeutical, supratherapeutic, supertherapeutic, subclinical, supraclinical, subhypotensive, subinhibitory, suprapharmacological, subantihypertensive, countertherapeutic, more...

Opposite:
supratherapeutic, therapeutic, effective

Types:
underdosing, hypodosing, maldosing, more...



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