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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
Synonyms:
National Institutes of Health; NIH
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("National Institutes of Health" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Meronyms (parts of "National Institutes of Health"):
National Library of Medicine; U.S. National Library of Medicine; United States National Library of Medicine (the world's largest medical library)
Holonyms ("National Institutes of Health" 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)
Context examples:
Now researchers from the National Institutes of Health show that this view of the drugs and the neural circuits they affect may have to change.
(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)
A center within the National Institutes of Health that acts as a portal for grant applications and their review for scientific merit.
(Center for Scientific Review, NCI Thesaurus)
A new National Institutes of Health study shows that uncommitted neural stems cells generally survive LACV infection, while LACV often kills neurons.
(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)
An institute within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that led NIH's contribution to the International Human Genome Project.
(National Human Genome Research Institute, NCI Thesaurus)
An institute within the National Institutes of Health that conducts and supports basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.
(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
A center within the National Institutes of Health with the mission to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities.
(National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NCI Thesaurus)
Teenagers who reach for objects, such as food or makeup, while driving increase their risk of crashing nearly seven times, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)
The Foundation's expenses fall into two categories: research and education grants that are awarded to institutions, individuals and organizations, and are selected through a grant-review process approved by the National Institutes of Health.
(Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)
An institute within the National Institutes of Health with the mission to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies.
(National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NCI Thesaurus)
One of the institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health.
(National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NCI Thesaurus)
