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CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)
Synonyms:
CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Center for Disease Control and Prevention" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Center for Disease Control and Prevention" is a part of...):
Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)
Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)
