Subpatent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subpatent is an adjective meaning (epidemiology) Infected but asymptomatic or not readily detectable.
Meaning
(epidemiology) Infected but asymptomatic or not readily detectable.
More Meanings
- (biology) Less than patent, present but not fully formed or obviously separate from surrounding structures.
- A legal grant for a subdivision of a patent or giving less than complete ownership rights.
Example Sentences
Following the period of patent parasitemia is a subpatent period.
It seems like then, perhaps, the best compromise solution would be for the legislature to create almost a middle step, a sub-patent.
It soon became the chief purpose of the company to parcel out these vast holdings, either in individual plantations or, through subpatents, in blocks of thousands of acres.
Twenty-two per cent of humans in the area were, or had been, carrying subpatent trypanosome infections, suggesting that the T. b. rhodesiense reservoir in the region could be considerable.
Word Forms
- subpatents
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inapparent, nonsymptomatic, unsymptomatic, subclinical, nonprevalent, apathogenic.
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