Noun
- 1. National Institutes of Health, NIH, agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority
- usage: 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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