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NIH
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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 ("NIH" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Meronyms (parts of "NIH"):
National Library of Medicine; U.S. National Library of Medicine; United States National Library of Medicine (the world's largest medical library)
Holonyms ("NIH" 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:
It advises the NIH Deputy Director for Management and delivery of technical and administrative services in support of the NIH research mission.
(Office of Research Services, NCI Thesaurus)
A transforming gene activated in certain human B lymphoid tumors, B-lym was originally detected by transfection of NIH 3T3 cells with DNA from Burkitt lymphomas.
(Oncogene B-LYM, NCI Thesaurus)
One NIH unit equals 1.1 to 1.3 International Units of thrombin.
(NIH Unit of Thrombin Inhibited/Square Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus)
The Clinical Center supports clinical trials conducted by the 27 Institutes and Centers of the NIH, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
(NIH Clinical Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Similarly, the NIH researchers found that mutant MDA5 in the girl’s respiratory tissues could not recognize HRVs, preventing her immune system from producing protective signaling proteins called interferons.
(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)
NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(Brachial Plexus Injuries, NIH)
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)
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)
“The clinical trials that have been done in people have all been fairly short,” says Dr. Ranganath Muniyappa, an NIH staff clinician who studies diabetes and cardiovascular health.
(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A framework to enhance cooperative activities among the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director and the NIH institutes and centers that support research on the nervous system.
(Blueprint for Neuroscience, NCI Thesaurus)
