There will, it is true, be more drugs to prescribe as each subtype of each common disease gets its own private magic bullet.
For every type or subtype, scientists would need to discover another set of molecular markers.
And, yes, out the nose is a subtype of the spit take.
The paper also describes for the first time a particularly aggressive subtype of the disease.
Considered a subtype of migraine with aura, this migraine starts in the basilar artery, which forms at the base of the skull.
A subtype, called a wrangler, specifically tends the horses used to work cattle.
British Dictionary definitions for subtype
subtype
/ˈsʌbˌtaɪp/
noun
1.
a secondary or subordinate type or genre, esp a specific one considered as falling under a general classification
Derived Forms
subtypical (sʌbˈtɪpɪkəl) adjective
subtype in Technology
programming If S is a subtype of T then an expression of type S may be used anywhere that one of type T can and an implicit type conversion will be applied to convert it to type T. In object oriented programming, this means that objects of type S must accept every message that one of type T would. (1997-07-28)