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::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | national institutes of health |
| Type of | office, authority, bureau, agency, federal agency, government agency |
Examples of nih
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Dietary fatty acids and pancreatic cancer in the NIH-AARP diet and Health Study.
From the themuslimweekly.com
Dr Venter, too, left the NIH in the wake of the expressed-sequence-tag incident.
From the economist.com
Speech pathologists at the NIH offer some useful tips for parents of stutterers.
From the dailyherald.com
Knowing her rights, Hernandez emailed the NIH officer responsible for her grant.
From the newscientist.com
He was also awarded a Fulbright fellowship and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
From the guardian.co.uk
The second thing I noticed was that this was funded under the NIH U01 mechanism.
From the scienceblogs.com
The NIH wanted to know what genetic changes it should monitor for, as a warning.
From the kansas.com
The opinions stated do not necessarily reflect those of the NIH or the U.S. Navy.
From the sciencedaily.com
The NIH recommends that most adults consume less than 2,400 milligrams per day.
From the abcnews.go.com
- National Institutes of Health: 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
- Nih was a town belonging to the ancient state of Sistan, which straddles the modern border of Afghanistan and Iran.
- The federal agency responsible for overseeing government-sponsored biomedical research. It is divided into 24 institutes and research centers.
- Informal acronym for Not Invented Here, representing the institutional resistance to anything imported from another service or agency; commonly expressed as: "that's not how we did it before", or "we didn't do it that way last time". ...
- Not invented here. This is language you might hear from an engineering team that will not consider working with anyone's code except its own. It's an attitude that will cost your company time and money.
- Example of use: Dia datang nih = Dia datang (She/he comes)
- Nickel hydrogen battery.
