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NIH, n.

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
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NIH National Institutes of Health

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part meronym

National Library of Medicine, United States National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine

part holonym

Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS

hypernym

office, agency, bureau, authority, federal agency, government agency