national institutes of health
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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 (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office, |
| definition | : | an administrative unit of government (noun.group) |
| part holonym | : | national library of medicine, u.s. national library of medicine, united states national library of medicine, |
| definition | : | the world's largest medical library (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | department of health and human services, health and human services, hhs, |
| definition | : | the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 (noun.group) |
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