Akademik

National Institutes of Health

noun

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

• Syn: ↑NIH

• Hypernyms: ↑agency, ↑federal agency, ↑government agency, ↑bureau, ↑office, ↑authority

• Part Holonyms: ↑Department of Health and Human Services, ↑Health and Human Services, ↑HHS

• Part Meronyms: ↑National Library of Medicine, ↑United States National Library of Medicine, ↑U.S. National Library of Medicine

Useful english dictionary. 2012.