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nounan 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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Definition that contains nih
- extinction complete annihilation
- dada a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
- extermination complete annihilation
- annihilation destruction by annihilating something
- cassava any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
- nihilistic of or relating to nihilism
- obliteration destruction by annihilating something
- positron an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation
- thermopylae a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece
- dadaism a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty