Medical Dictionary Definitions A-Z List
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National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Res.
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
(NIDCR): One of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the
U.S., the NIDCR is for dental and other craniofacial diseases.
NIDCR's mission is, in formal terms, to "provide
leadership for a national research program designed to
understa...
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National Institute of Environmental Health Science
National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS): A part of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States.
NIEHS states that its mission is to "reduce the burden of human
illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by defining how
environmental
exposures, genet...
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National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of General Medical
Sciences (NIGMS): One of the National Institutes of
Health in the U.S., NIGMS's mission is to "support basic
biomedical research that is not targeted to specific
diseases or disorders. Among the most significant results
of this research has been the devel...
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH): One of the National Institutes of Health in
the U.S., NIMH's mission is to "provide national leadership
dedicated to understanding, treating, and preventing mental
illnesses through basic research on the brain and behavior,
and through clinical, epi...
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders
National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke (NINDS): One of the National
Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NINDS's mission is to
"support and conduct research and research training on the
normal structure and function of the nervous system and on
the causes, prevention, diagnosi...
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National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institute of Nursing Research: One of the National Institutes of Health,
NINR's mission is to "sponsor research that focuses on the
clinical care of individuals and on their responses to
actual or potential health problems. Through its broad
mandate, NINR-supported scientists seek to ...
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National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute on Aging (NIA): One of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). The
mission of the National Institute on Aging is to "lead a national
program of research on
the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging
process; the prevention of age-related diseases and
disa...
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): One of the National Institutes of Health,
NIAAA's mission is to "conduct research focused on improving the treatment and
prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems to reduce the enormous
health, social, and economic consequen...
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National Institute on Deafness and Other Commun.
National Institute on Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD): One
of the US National Institutes of Health.
The mission of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is to "conduct and support biomedical research and research training on normal mechanisms as we...
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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA): One of the National Institutes of Health in the
U.S., NIDA's mission is to "lead the nation in bringing the
power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction
through support and conduct of research across a broad
range of disciplines and rapid and ef...
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institutes of Health (NIH): The
National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an important U.S. health agency. It is devoted to medical
research. Administratively under the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), the NIH consists of 20-some separate Institutes and
Centers. NIH's progra...
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health Clinical
Center (CC): The clinical research facility of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. As a
national resource, the CC's mission is to "provide the
patient care, services, and environment needed to initiate
and support the highest quality con...
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National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Library of Medicine (NLM): The world's largest
medical library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is part
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NLM has as its
mission to collect, organize, and make available biomedical science
information to investigators, educators...
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National Program of Cancer Registries
National Program of Cancer Registries: A program administered in the US by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1994 that helps the states and US territories to improve their cancer registries; meet standards for data completeness; timeliness, and quality; use cancer data to su...
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National Research Council
National Research Council: In the United States, a part of the National Academies. There are also National Research Councils in Canada, the UK, and other countries....
