Medical term:
subtherapeutic
subtherapeutic
(sŭb′thĕr-ə-pyo͞o′tĭk)adj.
Below the dosage levels used to treat diseases: subtherapeutic feeding of penicillin to livestock.
sub′ther·a·peu′ti·cal·ly adv.
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subtherapeutic
(sŭb″thĕr-ŭ-pūt′ĭk) [″ + ″]1. Less than adequately treated.
2. Taking a drug with a blood level below a desired treatment range. Patients using warfarin for atrial fibrillation, for example, have subtherapeutic anticoagulation when their international normalized ratio (INR) is below 2.0.
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