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)