national institutes of health

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national institutes of health - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  National Institutes of Health
      n 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 [syn:
           National Institutes of Health, NIH]