ETHICS COMMITTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethics committee mean? 

• ETHICS COMMITTEE (noun)
  The noun ETHICS COMMITTEE has 1 sense:

1. a committee appointed to consider ethical issues

  Familiarity information: ETHICS COMMITTEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHICS COMMITTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A committee appointed to consider ethical issues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ethics committee; ethics panel

Hypernyms ("ethics committee" is a kind of...):

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

 Context examples 

This committee performs critical oversight functions for research conducted on human study subjects that are scientific, ethical, and regulatory.Institutional Review Board (IRB), ethics committee, research ethics board, etc.

(Oversight Committee, NCI Thesaurus)