subhealth

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ health

Noun

subhealth (uncountable)

1. A condition between health and disease, exhibiting some apparently unhealthy features without specific pathology.
   • 2015 August 6, Tian Wang et al., “Effects of TCMC on Transformation of Good Health Status to Suboptimal Health Status: A Nested Case-Control Study”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM‎^[1], volume 2015, →DOI:

     Still, the etiology of subhealth and the mechanism of its development are still unclear.