English noun: National Institutes of Health | |||
1. | National Institutes of Health (group) 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 | ||
Synonyms | NIH | ||
Broader (hypernym) | agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office | ||
Part holonym | National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine, United States National Library of Medicine | ||
Part meronym | Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS | ||