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A smaller division of a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics.

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  • Possibly my favorite subtype is the SFF book that taps into capital-L Literary stories and frameworks and reimagines them.
  • It is only effective against a certain subtype of breast cancer, those that have too many HER2-receptors on their surfaces.
  • However, she cautioned that there was no guarantee of it being effective against the local strain, known as the subtype C strain.
  • From that information, the app tells patients what specific cancer "subtype" they have as determined by an expert panel.
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