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Definition of National Institutes of Health

1. Noun. 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.

Medical Definition of National Institutes of Health

1. A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of National Institutes of Health

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching For Evidence by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"NIH formally became the National Institutes of Health in 1948, when four new institutes were created to work on heart problems, dental research, ..."

2. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"92 National Institutes of Health. Vision research: National Plan: 1983-87. ... 95 National Institutes of Health. The National Long- Rangé Plan to Combat ..."

3. Life in the Universe: An Assessment of the U.S. and International Programs by Committee On The Origins And E, ebrary, Inc (2003)
"More directly, the DOE recognized the importance of genome sequencing well before other mission agencies did (notably, the National Institutes of Health). ..."

4. SBIR Program Diversity and Assessment Challenges: Report of a Symposium by Charles W. Wessner (2004)
"... Anne Goodnight National Institutes of Health Ms. Goodnight introduced herself as the SBIR/STTR coordinator for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ..."

5. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, Biological Models and Materials Research Program, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health See ..."

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