Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun national_institutes_of_health

1 sense of national institutes of health

Sense 1
National Institutes of Health, NIH -- (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)
       => agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority -- (an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority")