NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Institutes of Health mean? 

• NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Institutes of Health; NIH

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 

Neurons absorb and release water when they relay messages throughout the brain, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

(Neurons absorb and release water when firing, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, identified the mutation in a young child with a history of severe HRV infections.

(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)

Biologic age, a DNA-based estimate of a person’s age, is associated with future development of breast cancer, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health.

(Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)

Young children who have long-term high blood sugar levels are more likely to have slower brain growth, according to researchers at centers including the National Institutes of Health.

(Chronic high blood sugar may be detrimental to the developing brain of young children, NIH)

A program of the National Institutes of Health to bring together an independent group of experts to review scientific evidence related to an important public health issue.

(Consensus Development Program, NCI Dictionary)

EXAMPLE(S): United States National Institutes of Health (NIH)

(Government Funding, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Also called National Institutes of Health.

(NIH, NCI Dictionary)

NCCAM is part of the National Institutes of Health.

(NCCAM, NCI Dictionary)

A center within the National Institutes of Health that provides laboratory scientists and clinical researchers with the tools and training they need to understand, detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of diseases.

(National Center for Research Resources, NCI Thesaurus)

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is part of the National Institutes of Health.

(National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCI Dictionary)