EXTRAMURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extramural mean? 

• EXTRAMURAL (adjective)
  The adjective EXTRAMURAL has 1 sense:

1. carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community

  Familiarity information: EXTRAMURAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRAMURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community

Context example:

extramural sports

Similar:

intercollegiate (used of competition between colleges or universities)

intermural (between two or more institutions etc)

interscholastic; interschool (used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools)

outside (functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit)

Antonym:

intramural (carried on within the bounds of an institution or community)

 Context examples 

Reorganized on October 1, 1997 to the extramural Division of Cancer Prevention and the extramural Division of Cancer Control and Population Science.

(Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI Thesaurus)

A division within the National Cancer Institute that coordinates the scientific review of extramural research for consideration of funding, and provides systematic surveillance after awards are made.

(Division of Extramural Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

The Extramural Epidemiology and Genetics Program is the extramural equivalent of the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

(Extramural Epidemiology and Genetics Program, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the unique identifier for areas of extramural research activity applied to various funding mechanisms.

(Government Funding Mechanism Code, NCI Thesaurus)

The designated category assigned by the National Institutes of Health to a specific funding mechanism for an extramural research activity.

(Activity Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, in collaboration with extramural organizations, have sequenced nearly the entire genome of human, mouse and rat Pneumocystis.

(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)

They also carry out programs of education in biometric and epidemiologic principles and methods for the vision research community as well as providing biometric and epidemiologic assistance to National Eye Institute intramural and extramural staff and to vision research workers elsewhere.

(Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, NCI Thesaurus)

Their members include leaders in laboratory, clinical, and population-based research drawn from the extramural and intramural research community, staff of the NIH and other government agencies, members of professional organizations, and interested consumers and patient advocates.

(Director's Working Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors, comprised of leading scientists and members of lay community, advises the Director and Deputy Director for Extramural Science, and the Director of each NCI Division on matters concerning scientific program policy, progress and future direction of extramural research programs.

(Board of Scientific Advisors NCI, NCI Thesaurus)

A division of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that provides leadership for a national and international extramural program in cardiovascular diseases that integrates basic science and clinical research, including translational research, networks, and multicenter clinical trials.

(Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, NCI Thesaurus)