NSC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NSC mean? 

• NSC (noun)
  The noun NSC has 1 sense:

1. a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency

  Familiarity information: NSC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NSC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Security Council; NSC

Hypernyms ("NSC" is a kind of...):

executive agency (an agency of the executive branch of government)

 Context examples 

An NSC code identifier issued for a generic product.

(NSC Generic Product Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Genetically-modified neural stem cells (NSCs) transfected with the Escherichia coli (E. coli) suicidal gene cytosine deaminase (CD), with potential antineoplastic adjuvant activity.

(E. coli CD-expressing Genetically Modified Neural Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Assignment of NSC numbers was never done in a way that would guarantee one and only one NSC number would be assigned to a particular substance.

(NSC Number, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intracerebral injection, E. coli CD-expressing genetically modified NSCs express the E. coli cytosine deaminase, an enzyme that catalyzes the intracellular conversion of the nontoxic prodrug 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) into the cytotoxic 5-fluorouracil (5-FU).

(E. coli CD-expressing Genetically Modified Neural Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)