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Noun: United States Public Health Service
  1. An agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health
    - PHS

Type of: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office

Part of: Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS

Encyclopedia: United States Public Health Service