united states public health service

1. 1.

   an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health

   SynonymsPHS

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Health and Human Services

Questions about united states public health service

What does united states public health service mean?

united states public health service means "an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health".

What is another word for united states public health service?

Close synonyms include PHS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is united states public health service a common word?

united states public health service is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.