National Institutes of Health
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- proper noun
- Formal
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Institutos Nacionales de Salud (EE. UU.)
- A recent report from the National Institutes of Health shows a significant increase in health-related funding.
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Institutes of Health grant
There's all sorts of great websites, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, National Institutes of Health, British NHS, you know, all all sorts of things like that.
- There's all sorts of great websites, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, National Institutes of Health, British NHS, you know, all all sorts of things like that.
Examples
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In April 2010, the National Institutes of Health awarded UNC $14.5 million to expand the facility.
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Parts of this research were supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01-DC04789 and F31-DC011201.
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The team recently received a National Institutes of Health grant supporting this work for the next three years.
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Anastasia is a Presidential Management Fellow at the National Institutes of Health.
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What is your agenda for the National Institutes of Health and other federally funded research?
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Important examples include the genome sequences made available by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other public-spirited organizations.
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Among these, 70,000 to 90,000 experience long-term functional impairments (National Institutes of Health NIH, 1999).
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are studying the effects of a new vaccine on public health.
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The policies implemented by the National Institutes of Health aim to improve community health and wellness.
Synonyms
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A U.S. government agency that funds medical and health research
Surface Forms
Morphology
national + institute + of + health
The phrase is a straightforward noun phrase combining 'national' (state-level), 'institutes' (organizations for research), and 'health' (medical/well-being), so a learner who knows the parts can infer it refers to state/government research organizations concerned with health. Although it names a specific U.S. agency, the basic compositional meaning is clear and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
The name National Institutes of Health comes from the idea of many separate research centers, called institutes, working together at the national level to study health. So, the name shows it is a U.S. 'government agency' that funds and runs 'medical research'.