"submodal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sub- + modal.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Hence, we observed that 17.5% of the tumors were strongly and diffusely immunoreactive for p16 Ink4A, whereas a submodal positivity was restricted to 22.3% tumors.",
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  "word": "submodal"
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sub- + modal.",
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        "Less than modal"
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