national institutes of health

1. 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

   SynonymsNIH

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Health and Human Services

   PartsNational Library of Medicine

Questions about national institutes of health

What does national institutes of health mean?

national institutes of health means "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".

What is another word for national institutes of health?

Close synonyms include NIH. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is national institutes of health a common word?

national institutes of health is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.