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INSTITUTIONAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Organized as or forming an institution
Example:
institutional religion
Classified under:
Similar:
institutionalised; institutionalized (given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system)
uninteresting (characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative)
Antonym:
noninstitutional (not institutional)
Derivation:
institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or constituting or involving an institution
Example:
institutional policy
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
Derivation:
institution (an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated)
institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)
institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
Context examples:
National Research Service Award (NRSA) institutional training grants (T32) enable eligible institutions to develop or enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training opportunities for individuals, selected by the institution, who are training for careers in specified shortage areas of biomedical and behavioral research.
(Institutional National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)
A document containing the determination of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) that the clinical study with human subject participation has been reviewed and may be conducted at a particular study site within the constraints set forth by the IRB and other institutional and federal requirements.
(Institutional Review Board Approval, NCI Thesaurus)
A professional trained and qualified to provide nutritional services at individual, institutional and community levels in term of assessing nutritional needs and coordinating them with medical ones, developing and implementing nutrition programs, evaluation and reporting their results, as well as to educate people on healthy eating, and diseases prevention and treatment by means of dietary modifications.
(Dietitian, NCI Thesaurus)
Nursing Health Policy Specialists are Registered Nurses academically prepared at the graduate level who analyze, evaluate, and propose public and institutional policy that affects health care availability, accessibility, and delivery within a given population, region, or facility.
(Nurse Specialist in Health and Public Policy, NCI Thesaurus)
The Local Protocol, Standard Cancer Center Information Summary for Cancer Center Support Grant Application, is a study conducted by the reporting Cancer Center primarily in its catchment area (including institutional trials, either exclusive to the Center or in collaboration with other Centers, industry-sponsored trials, and other externally peer-reviewed trials).
(Local Protocol Standard Cancer Center Information Summary, NCI Thesaurus)
Institutional Review Boards are designed to protect the people who take part in a clinical trial.
(Institutional Review Board, NCI Dictionary)
Institutional Review Boards check to see that the trial is well designed, legal, ethical, does not involve unneccesary risks, and includes safeguards for patients.
(Institutional Review Board, NCI Dictionary)
