National Library of Medicine
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3.9
- proper noun
- Formal
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Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina
- Did you know the National Library of Medicine is the world's largest medical library?
- the US National Library of Medicine
- the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Examples
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VIVA! Peer tutors teach their classmates how to use National Library of Medicine resources for their health science technology class assignments.
Academic text (2006) -
The National Library of Medicine has established five criteria to use for assessing the reliability of Internet health information; these include accuracy, authority, bias, currency, and comprehension (National Library of Medicine, 2012).
Academic text (2015) -
BLA has a strong partnership with the National Library of Medicine.
Academic text (2006) -
This work was supported by the National Library of Medicine grant 1G13LM010884-01A1 to A. M.
Academic text (2013) -
Finally, the National Library of Medicine features Micrographia both online and in their new Turn the Pages app.
Blog text (19) -
This blog is now being archived by the National Library of Medicine.
Blog text (14) -
These were released by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) within the framework of the "Visible Human Project."
Academic text (2016) -
The first major service was provided by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), which indexes its collections by Medical Subject Headings or MeSH.
Academic text (1991) -
Furthermore, as the National Library of Medicine points out, these criteria are only valid when used together; in other words, partial utilization of criteria negates the credibility and reliability of the source.
Academic text (2015) -
The National Library of Medicine provides free access to a vast collection of medical research articles.
Synonyms
A very large medical library run by the United States government
The largest medical library in the world, run by the U.S. government in Bethesda, Maryland
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
national + library + of + medicine
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'national' (governmental) + 'library' (collection/place for books/resources) + 'medicine' (medical field) yields the clear meaning 'a government-run library for medical/biomedical information.' The structure is a common noun phrase pattern (with the function word 'of') and is cross-linguistically paralleled, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would grasp the core meaning even if they did not know institutional specifics.
Etymology
National Library of Medicine began as a small government collection of medical books for doctors, so the name literally points to a government ('National') library for medicine. It grew into a big resource with online services like PubMed, so the name now means a central place to find 'medical information' and research.